Branching Out: Leveraging the Law for Entrepreneurship from the Co-Founder of the SyFy Channel

About Laurie Silvers: 

Laurie Silvers is the co-founder of the SyFy Channel; President of Hollywood Media Corp. and Co-CEO of Hollywood.com, a leading online provider of entertainment information. She is also a founding Board Member of Movietickets.com, an owner of Home Town Cable Plus, a telecommunications provider of TV, internet, phone, and alarm monitoring services, as well as Owner of Treasure and Space Coast Broadcasting, which operates five radio stations in Florida’s Treasure Coast.

Laurie also servers as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami; a Co-Chair of South Florida PBS, the eighth largest PBS station in the country; Vice Chair and Member, Board of Directors of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida; Board Member, United Way, Town of Palm Beach; Donor, Duke University’s “Rubenstein and Silvers Hillel”.

Laurie is a long serving Volunteer Mentor with the “Women of Tomorrow” program which mentors at-risk high schools girls. She is married to Mitchell Rubenstein and has three children.