Laura Élan is a recent addition to the CSA Group Innovation Team in the role of Senior Manager of Cybersecurity, supporting several industry verticals including Consumer Products Solutions. Prior to joining the CSA Group, she served as the Cybersecurity Practice Lead for UL’s Digital Health Service team, supporting medical device software and solutions customers in meeting regulatory and business imperatives for software and cybersecurity assurance. Laura has more than 30 years of software and product development and compliance engineering experience, grounded in several decades of senior leadership roles with R&D and Manufacturing organizations including Medical Devices, Commercial and Consumer Electronics companies. Laura holds a BSEE from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and an MSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and is currently pursuing a Graduate Degree in Computer Science with a focus on cybersecurity. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois and holds the RAC credential from the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society.