Karen brings 20 years of Sales and Marketing experience from a large, successful Independent Software Vendor founded in Houston, Texas. Her background includes building the $8 million dollar software company into a Software Sales and Services Corporation with sales of $1.4 billion annually. During her tenure, Karen generated sales with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. She used her success to guide other sales representatives to rewarding careers. She expanded her skill set to master and implement Solution Selling, Negotiating to Yes, and other selling methodologies.

Along with being a leader of the sales team, Karen also took on marketing responsibilities that included Field Marketing and Product Marketing. She also worked with Corporate Marketing on several initiatives and marketing priorities. Karen utilized her experience in sales and marketing to create a new role in the organization as a liaison between sales, marketing, and r & d. The program is still running strong today.

In addition to sales and marketing, Karen led projects from the operations side of the business. Project work included corporate communications and a Time-to-Sell methodology.

Karen continues to have a passion for sales enablement: guiding organizations into methodologies and processes to be effective, efficient, and profitable.

Karen graduated from the University of Notre Dame with BA degree in Marketing.