Lori Souther

Lori is a seasoned sales and management professional with 20 years of leadership experience in consultative sales, management and finance with F500 companies.

Lori began her career at Northrup Grumman as a Senior Financial Analyst where she worked with the resource planning team and the program managers across aircraft groups to determine labor and material budgets. At United Technologies, Lori worked for The Otis Elevator Company in New York City, managing a cross functional team of field personnel in maintenance and repair as well as selling to large corporate real estate and hospitality clients. As a Director of Sales for Autodesk, Lori oversaw the East Coast sales efforts for Autodesk’s Buzzsaw division. Selling to the real estate and construction industry as well as F500 retailers and organizations, she and her team helped to introduce their clients to this new technology as a means of managing their projects. Most recently, as the US Sales and Marketing Executive for GOAT Fashion, she managed, across disciplines, to launch this luxury UK women’s clothing label in the US.

Lori has a passion for bringing the Arts to public schools and has served as VP and President of her local school district’s Parents’ Council. She fundraised and worked to institute a sustainable arts program for grades K through 5, including a theater program which has almost 70 participants each term. Lori has a BA in Economics from Stony Brook University and an MBA from the Darden School, University of Virginia.