About New York Natives

If we are the accumulation of all the sites we have seen, all the foods we have tasted, clothes we have worn, products we have tried, a Native is quite a specimen of accumulated experiences....

 The Executive Team

Camilla Webster and Laura Hill have a friendship that spans decades in New York City. From their early play dates in the same Central Park playground when they were barely walking to their primordial school years just across the street from one another at The Brearley School and The Chapin School respectively. Both forged amazing professional paths for themselves taking advantage of the city's unbelievable resources and opportunities. 

Relying on a deep rooted friendship and their respective professional skills and talents they founded New York Natives LLC in August 2011 and have never looked back. 

Camilla Webster  is a top international journalist and Forbes contributor who covers Wall Street, the global economy, technology, billionaires, women's wealth, art, culture and gourmet cuisine. She is the co-author of The Seven Pearls of Financial Wisdom: A Woman's Guide to Enjoying Wealth and Power (St. Martins Press) which will be available on Amazon in late November. 

As a tech-venture entrepreneur, Camilla was invited to participate in the first White House Tweetup Briefing with Press Secretary Jay Carney to discuss the American Jobs Act in September 2011.

In October, 2011, Camilla served as a moderator at SoHo House in NYC for London & Partners' Bridging the Tech Gap; a series of panels including Gilt Groupe, General Assembly and Cisco aimed at attracting investors to London's new Tech City. 

A regular guest on The John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio in NY she has also appeared multiple times on MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business in the US and LBC Radio in the UK. 

As a producer for Fox News, CBS News and a broadcast news editor for the Wall Street Journal she has covered business and world affairs from New York City to Baghdad to Washington DC. 

Her articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and MarketWatch.com. She twice represented Forbes at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland and is a respected moderator for conferences on investment and economic development in NY and around the world. Camilla is a Huffington Post Contributor.

Camilla is an alumna of The Brearley School, a Trustee on the US Board of the Shakespeare Globe (UK), a member of 85 Broads, New York Women in Film and Television and POWArts. She lives in NY with dual citizenship in the US and UK. 

Laura L.M. Hill is an attorney, a former academic and an entrepreneur. She is currently Of Counsel at Lawler Mahon & Rooney LLP in New York City. Her legal expertise ranges from Real Estate Finance, Real Property, Affordable Housing & Tax Credit Finance, Equine Law, and General Business Law.

Prior to beginning her law career, Laura received her Ph.D. in English from Stonybrook University, SUNY, in 2000, and taught for several years at the college level. During that time she regularly gave lectures and published in her area of expertise; eighteenth century literature and culture. 

Laura is also an owner of two privately held art & design companies, Lillunia LLC and Gold Design Factory LLC a/k/a Barrett-Smythe Designs, for which she paints, creates graphic design work and illustration. In such capacity she has been designing for Zippo Manufacturing Company for several years. Laura is a Huffington Post Contributor.

Laura is an alumna of The Chapin School, a Trustee on the US Board of the Shakespeare Globe (UK), a member of 85 Broads and a competing member of the United States Equestrian Federation. She lives in NY with dual citizenship in the US and Italy. 

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