Karen is a board member and Chair of the Audit Committees of Analog Devices, Inc., Aspen Technology, Inc., iROBOT Corporation and Osteon Holdings/Exactech, a privately owned company of TPG. She is a senior advisor to The Boston Consulting Group’s Audit and Risk Committee. Karen is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow, was named by Women Inc magazine in January 2020 a 2019 Most Influential Corporate Director and previously participated in Catalyst’s Women On Board program. She is also a board member of the University of Illinois Foundation where she chairs the Investment Policy Committee. Previously, Karen was a senior leader and Global Vice Chair of Ernst & Young (EY), a global professional services firm with revenues of $31.4 billion where she led the global professional practice and independence groups for a number of years. She is a solutions-oriented leader with on-the-ground international experience in Europe and Asia. She has worked with large organizations and early-stage high-growth companies on issues in accounting, auditing, financial and corporate reporting, internal control, regulatory, risk, securities registrations, initial public offerings and ethics matters. Karen is a CPA and qualifies as a financial expert. Karen graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with Highest Honors and was a Bronze Tablet Scholar of the university. In 2017, she was named the Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Illinois, Gies College of Business. She previously served on the Financial Stability Board’s, established by the G20 in April 2009, Enhanced Disclosure Task Force (EDTF) as Chair of the Market Risk Workstream. Karen resides in New Hampshire.