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Lu M. Cordova

Lu M. Cordova is the former CEO and chairman of the board of Acteva, a leading provider of e-commerce services to the event community, including online credit card processing and reporting for ticketing, membership, registrations, donations and more. Cordova also served on the Acteva board as chief development officer. She has worked with the founders to evolve the company from concept to revenue production and first-round financing.

Prior to Acteva, Cordova was CEO of Corlund Industries. While there, Cordova consulted with and participated in the development of companies, including most recently, TixToGo, before it became Acteva, and @Home Network. Previously, Cordova was vice president of corporate development at MMS International, a start-up that was sold to McGraw-Hill as part of the Standard & Poor's Corporation.

She has also worked for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System conducting empirical research on data flows, information networking and exchange rate expectations, and for the California State Attorney General researching rate cases. Ms. Cordova has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Labor to a third term on the Business Research Advisory Council which consults with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on BLS data.

A California native, Ms. Cordova attended the University of California at Berkeley and received B.S. degrees in both political science and economics and a Ph.D.-A.B.D. in economics.