Laurence Unger joined Rice Management Company in 2025 and is an Associate Director. Previously, Laurence was Head of Public Markets at Legacy Trust Company, where she oversaw $4B in public market assets. Concurrent with her work at Legacy, she helped launch a family office-backed venture vehicle focused on early-stage life science investments in partnership with scientists at McMaster University, University of California, Irvine, Harvard, and the University of Florida. From 2010 to 2018, she was a generalist investment analyst at Hawkins Capital, a long-short hedge fund. She received her BA from Oxford University and her MBA from Columbia Business School.