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Karen Richardson is an American executive in the software industry.
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Karen Richardson is an American executive in the software industry.
She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and has received recognition from the Stanford Industrial Engineering Department and the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. [1]
Richardson sits on several corporate boards including BP, the British energy company; Exponent, [2] a Silicon Valley–based engineering and scientific consulting company; [3] States Title, which uses machine learning to automate real estate closings. [4]
Richardson was a member of the board of directors of BT Group. [5] from November 2011 to July 2018 [6] and payment-processing company Worldpay from 2016 to 2019, when it was sold to FIS for $43 billion. [7] [8]
Richardson was a board member of VirtuOz [9] until January 2013, when the company was acquired by Nuance Communications. [10] She was on the advisory board of Proofpoint Inc., an email security and compliance products [11] provider and served as chairwoman of the board of directors of San Francisco-based Hi5 Networks Inc. [12] from 2008 until December 2011, when the company was purchased by social net-worker Tagged Inc. [13] Richardson has also sat on the boards of HackerRank, [14] a technology company that develops competitive programming challenges, [15] and i2, a Silver Lake-owned developer of investigative analysis software, until the company was sold to IBM in October 2011. [16] 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. [17] [18] [19]
Richardson is a former adviser to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity investment firm. [20] She is a former member of the board of the San Francisco Opera, [21] which she joined as part of a push by that institution to include more technology leaders. [22] [23] She also serves on the advisory board of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program [24] 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. [25] 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. [25]
Richardson holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and award distinctions from the Stanford Industrial Engineering Department and the American Institute of Industrial Engineers (AIIE). [26]
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. [27] She is married to Jon Rubinstein, [28] former co-CEO of investment firm Bridgewater Associates. [29]
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