Stuart Laidlaw is the head of global alliances at [Taulia](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/taulia), a company that provides cloud-based invoice, payment, and discount management solutions for large buying organizations. He was previously a senior director of strategic alliances and corporate development at Hortonworks. Laidlaw also worked as the vice president of business development of Zuora. Before that, he was the senior director of strategic alliances at Hortonworks and director of business development at Hewlett-Packard Company.Laidlaw holds a bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences from Duke University.