Karen Richardson

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Karen Richardson
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationBS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and award distinctions from the Stanford Industrial Engineering Department and the American Institute of Industrial Engineers (AIIE).
Known forAmerican executive in the software industry

Karen Richardson is an American industrial engineer. She currently serves as a non-executive director on BP's (formerly The British Petroleum Company) board. [1] [2]

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Education

Richardson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and has earned recognition from both the Stanford Industrial Engineering Department and the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. [3]

Career

Richardson sits on several corporate boards, including BP, the British energy company; Exponent, [2] a Silicon Valley–based engineering and scientific consulting company; [4] and States Title, which uses machine learning to automate real estate closings. [5]

Richardson was a member of the board of directors of BT Group. [6] from November 2011 to July 2018 [7] and payment-processing company Worldpay from 2016 to 2019, when it was sold to FIS for $43 billion. [8] [9]

Richardson was a board member of VirtuOz [10] until January 2013, when the company was acquired by Nuance Communications. [11] She was on the advisory board of Proofpoint Inc., an email security and compliance products [12] provider, and served as chairwoman of the board of directors of San Francisco-based Hi5 Networks Inc. [13] from 2008 until December 2011, when the company was purchased by social networker Tagged Inc. [14] Richardson has also sat on the boards of HackerRank, [15] a technology company that develops competitive programming challenges, [16] and i2, a Silver Lake–owned developer of investigative analysis software, until the company was sold to IBM in October 2011. [17] She served on the board of Ayasdi before it was sold and on the advisory board of Convercent until its sale to OneTrust in 2021. [18] [19] [20]

Richardson is a former adviser to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity investment firm. [21] She is a former member of the board of the San Francisco Opera, [22] which she joined as part of a push by that institution to include more technology leaders. [23] [24] She also serves on the advisory board of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program [25] at Stanford University.

Richardson served as chief executive of E.piphany, a developer of customer relationship management software. She held several senior sales positions at Netscape Communications Corp. from 1995 to 1998. As executive vice president of sales at Netscape, Richardson concentrated on markets such as telecommunications and financial services and the development of new markets. [26] Prior to her position at Netscape, Richardson was VP of Worldwide Sales at Collabra Software, Inc., and worked for four years with Lotus Development Corporation in sales and marketing roles as well as at cc:Mail and 3Com Corporation. [26]

Richardson holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University with award distinctions from the Stanford Industrial Engineering Department and the American Institute of Industrial Engineers (AIIE). [27]

Personal life

Richardson's grandfather was a farmer from Saskatchewan who graduated with a PhD in chemistry from Stanford University. Her mother entered Stanford at age 16 to study mathematics, and her father is also a Stanford alumnus. [28] She is married to Jon Rubinstein, [29] former co-CEO of investment firm Bridgewater Associates. [30]

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  6. ↑ Technology guru joins BT as new director, 2011-10-19
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  21. ↑ Meet Silver Lake: The Hot Private Equity Firm of the Moment, The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2011
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  24. ↑ Zinko, Carolyne (2013-08-23). "Old money welcomes new (tech) blood to the arts". SFGate.com. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  25. ↑ "Stanford Technology Ventures Program Advisory Board Web site". Archived from the original on 2014-02-20.
  26. 1 2 "Karen Richardson Biography | Booking Info for Speaking Engagements". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  27. ↑ "Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  28. ↑ "Karen Richardson: A Girl Among Geeks | Stanford eCorner". ecorner-legacy.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-28.[ permanent dead link ]
  29. ↑ New tech to the arts
  30. ↑ "Bridgewater Hires Ex-Apple Executive as Co-CEO". Wall Street Journal. March 10, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
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