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Jannie K. Lau is a lawyer and retired technology company executive. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the Asian American Advisory Council within the Comcast NBCUniversal Joint Diversity Advisory Council (JDC). Ms. Lau has also served on the Advisory Board of Holistic Industries, one of the largest private, vertically integrated, multi-state operators in the cannabis industry, since 2017.

From October 2012 until her retirement in December 2019, Ms. Lau was the Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of InterDigital, Inc., an S&P 400® multinational technology company (NASDAQ: IDCC). Reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Lau managed the company’s legal and government affairs functions, including a worldwide team of over 100 employees, and advised the Board of Directors on legal, governance and compliance matters. During the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign, she also served as a technology and innovation policy advisor to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Prior to joining InterDigital, Ms. Lau served as securities and transactional counsel at IKON Office Solutions, Inc., then a Fortune® 500 document management company. Before beginning her in-house career, she was a corporate associate at leading global law firms in New York and Boston, where she represented public and pre-IPO companies, primarily in the high technology sector, with respect to securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, financings and corporate governance matters and counseled private equity and venture capital fund managers on capital formations, portfolio investments and general governance issues.

Ms. Lau currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and on the Board of Directors of the Committee of Seventy. Among other recognitions, Ms. Lau has been honored as one of Pennsylvania’s “Most Powerful & Influential Women” by the National Diversity Council and as a “Woman of the Year” by The Legal Intelligencer.

Ms. Lau is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia College of Columbia University. She lives in Villanova, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Todd C. Longsworth, and their two children.