Laxmi Poruri
Senior Director for Client Growth, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Laxmi Poruri is responsible for business and client development in the technology industry vertical.
Laxmi maintains many of the firm’ s relationships to the startup ecosystem, which includes investment bankers, accounting firms, venture capitalists, private firms and other stakeholders. In addition, she helps drive strategy and branding for the technology vertical. Laxmi has been part of multiple executive teams in a sales or business development capacity, as well as an angel investor in several companies.
Prior to her business career, she played professional tennis on the WTA (Women’ s Tennis Association) tour and was a four-time All American at Stanford University. In 2023, she was named as one of Stanford University’s 50 Game-changers for women’s sports in celebration of Title IX’s 50th anniversary.