Virtual Piggy beefs up executive team

LOS ANGELES — Virtual Piggy, an online service that allows parents to monitor their children's online shopping behavior, has appointed Laura Janke Jaeger as general counsel.

Jaeger has more than 20 years of experience advising boards and management teams on strategic and financing activities, as well as transactional and other corporate and regulatory issues.

She has served as the SVP and general counsel of Elandia, Inc., as corporate VP of Fortune 150 Cendant Corporation, and as general counsel of Winstar International. Prior to her in-house roles at these public companies, Jaeger was a corporate and transactional associate at top New York law firms Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett and White & Case.

She is a graduate of Georgetown Law and the University of Notre Dame with extensive business and strategic development experience and is licensed to practice law in England as well as New York.

“I’m excited that Laura had decided to join the executive team,” said Dr. Jo Webber, CEO and founder of Virtual Piggy. “Her broad legal expertise at an international level is already proving to be invaluable to us as we expand domestically and globally.”

“Virtual Piggy is a fast growing company with a unique business model,” said Jaeger. “I’m thrilled to be part of the executive management team and help Virtual Piggy become a household name across the globe.”