Karen has extensive experience in project finance and private equity. She started her career at Citibank where she worked on various multi-national project finance transactions. Karen worked at CDC (Commonwealth Development Corporation), the UK’s development finance institution, where she held a variety of positions in equity and debt investing, portfolio management, fund raising and investor development.

Karen has been an adviser to hedge funds, family offices and private equity houses for a number of years. She currently serves as Chair of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust plc; Non-Executive Director of HeiQ plc and is an external panel member of the Albion Capital VCT investment committee.