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Shelly Bennecke

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Managing Partner
Laguna Ventures LLC
Country or state 
United States
Available to 
Global
City 
Laguna Beach
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Languages 
English
Volunteer
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Personal Details

Bio

Shelly is the Managing Partner at Laguna Ventures LLC an incubator and management consulting firm. LVL’s primary portfolio is focused on entrepreneurs in Health, Entertainment, Environment, Transportation and Technology.

Ms. Bennecke had 16 years of leadership responsibility in the transportation division at Cox Enterprises, in one role she managed the Initiative Review Board where all company initiatives were evaluated from a capital and operating perspective. While at Cox, the $22b privately held media, auto and business giant, she had a governance responsibility in strategy to pitch and launch new global innovations and enterprises along with facilitating growth for their popular consumer brands like; Cox Cable, The Travel Channel, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Austin American-Statesman, Dayton Daily News, WSB-TV Atlanta (ABC), KTVU San Francisco (FOX), KIRO Seattle (CBS), WPXI Pittsburgh (NBC), Kelley Blue Book, AutoTrader.com, and Valpak. She helped conceptualize, develop and implement strategic alliances with numerous companies like Hearst Corporation, WSJ, Facebook, Instagram, Yahoo, Google, eBay, MSN, Santander Consumer Bank AG and more. Across Cox divisions, she also was a Health and Wellness Ambassador and was appointed to lead the companies Energy Team within their Go Green initiative to reduce the companies carbon impact leading toward Clean-Tech investments.

Shelly has spoken domestically and internationally. At Oxford University Said Business School, she delivered a case study on entrepreneurship and a presentation related to global politics with an emphasis on the American geopolitical sphere. She spoke to a delegation of world leaders on the future of transportation in China at a United Nations, PRC World Congress conference focused on the environment and she was asked by The Country of Finland Teachers Commission to speak on the topics of women in leadership and international business. In addition to the above, Shelly was a Junior Partner at Independent Film Channel, her contributions at IFC funded budding directors, writers, producers and their Independent Spirit Awards.

Currently Shelly serves as a CERT team member in her community under the United States Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency division (FEMA) and is on The City of Laguna Beach Environmental Sustainability and Emergency Disaster Committees. As President of the Board for non-profit ImaginationNow she assists in the vision of bringing imagination back into our schools and life spectrums. She was part of Harvard Business School’s inaugural Strategy and Execution HBX Live program along with being enrolled in Stanford University's Entrepreneurs and Innovation and Genetic programs. She is an alumna of Oxford University’s Said Business School.

Current position (3)

Managing Partner

Laguna Ventures LLC

President, Board of Directors

ImaginationNow.org 501(c)3

Chairman, Environmental Sustainability Committee

The City of Laguna Beach

Degrees (5)
Entrepreneur and Innovation Program
Stanford Graduate School of Business
2016 to 2018
Genetics and Genomics Program
Stanford Graduate School of Business
2018
Strategy Execution Certificate
Harvard Business School HBX
2018
Advanced Management Program
University of Oxford Said Business School
2019
The Cambridge Creativity Lab
Cambridge University Judge Business School
2019

Presentations

Presentations (2)
How to start your business, now!

Series hosted by Management Consulting Firm, LVL.

Buy? Build? Partner?

Series hosted by Management Consulting Firm, LVL.

Workshops (1)
6Point Walk Around
Full day
(View workshop agenda)

Mitsubishi Motors UK Training

Past talks (3)
Women in Business in America
Finland Teachers Counsel
Los Angeles
2016
The Race - New Energy Vehicles
New Energy Forum / United Nations
Xian, China
2015
The Day in The Life of an Early Hydrogen Adopter
BIT Congress hosted by United Nations & PRC
China
2015
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Books & Articles (7)

World of Change
SpinOutMedia.com an LVL Asset,
2008
World of Change Book
era of #wellness
Mentors Matter
Do you know Watson, Crick, Franklin & Wilkins? Nope, not a law firm...
Women in Business in the United States - Presented to Finland's Teachers Council
#China #NewEnergyVehicles #Hydrogen

Expertise (30)

Technology
Health & Well-being
Leadership
Media & Marketing
Business
Internet Startups Big data and business Business Development Developing a Strategic Vision Modelling and Forecasting Energy and Environment Climate change and sustainability corporate sustainability Angel investing Valuations Media Art and Entertainment Government Legislative Policy Women Energy Transportation Strategy Transportation Entertainment Health Wellness Environmental Marketing Sales Board Development

Awards & certifications (1)

Finance Certificate (FANFM)
Georgia Institute of Technology
2007
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