Lauren van Dyke

Ms. Lauren van Dyke is a Senior Analyst at Advantage Capital Partners.
She is the chair and co-founder of the Young Professionals Board for Rise, a regional nonprofit dedicated to urban revitalization and housing, for which she is also a member of the Board of Directors.
She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Young Friends Council.
Prior to joining Advantage Capital Partners in 2012, Ms. van Dyke worked in mechanical engineering and software development at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she supported mission operations for the Mars Exploration Rovers and contributed to the development of ARTEMIS, a new motion simulation software package for the Rovers.
Ms. van Dyke graduated with college honors from Washington University in St. Louis as part of the Pathfinder Program in Environmental Sustainability and holds a bachelor’s degree in geophysics, with a minor in environmental engineering.