Congratulations to our Women in CE Legacy Award Winners

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Laynie Newsome

Co-Founder and V.P. Sales and Mktg. Communications
VIZIO

Laynie Newsome, Co-Founder and V.P. Sales and Mktg. Communications of VIZIO, America's #1 LCD HDTV Company, has worked for company founder William Wang since she was 18 years old and as such has spent the last 18 years assisting Computer and CE brands advance display technologies for consumers.

Laynie started in the CE business as a college student while taking night classes. Within 9 months she was traveling across the country to call on accounts and help coordinate business opportunities with a fast growing PC company by the name of Gateway 2000. Ms. Newsome has sold more than 3 billion dollars of computer monitors and flat panel HDTVs in her career and now is responsible for more than 12 million flat panel VIZIO HDTVs sold in the U.S.

Laynie was recently recognized by Dealerscope Magazine in their "Forty under Forty" listing of professionals making a splash in the CE business and also by the Orange County Metro Magazine as on the of the Top 40 Executives under 40. She lives in Ladera Ranch Calfornia with her husband and two sons who are 3.5 and 1.5 years old.