Karen has over 17 years of marketing, technical and management experience in enterprise software, consumer technology, and telecommunications solutions, as well as expertise in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Retail industries. Her client base of leading Bay Area companies includes Yahoo!, Intuit, Wells Fargo, Adobe, Cisco, BEA, and Sun Microsystems.

Prior to founding Paragon Consulting Company, Karen was the Director of Industry Marketing for E.piphany, a leading provider of intelligent customer interaction software. While at E.piphany, Karen launched the Industry Marketing team to focus the company’s marketing and sales efforts on key industries.

Before joining E.piphany, Karen was an Industry Marketing Strategist for Siemens Information & Communication Networks (I&CN), where she was focused on solution and partnership development.

Karen worked for a number of years for Sprint and Sprint PCS as a senior-level marketing executive. She also worked in the marketing units of both Compaq and BellSouth Wireless. Her early career was in the Information Technology division of Seattle First National Bank, a subsidiary of Bank of America.

Karen holds a MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where she focused on high-tech marketing. She also holds a BA from the University of Puget Sound in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing and Economics.