Karen Walker brings over 20 years of experience as a finance executive in the global market. She has spearheaded organizations from start-ups to industry leaders including PagerDuty, Uber, and Pandora Media amongst others. Her extensive background includes leading financial planning and analysis, compliance, accounting, shared services, and treasury operations.

Her expertise includes scaling and transforming the finance function of businesses to become valued business partners. She is also an audit committee financial expert with a considerable experience of presenting to audit committees on finance, governance, and compliance. Walker has board involvement experience and has contributed to early IPO-readiness in her previous roles at Uber and Virgin America, now Alaska Airlines.

With a BBA in accounting from Southern Methodist University, Karen Walker has a proven track record of building investor community communications, drafting prepared remarks, key messaging, customer stories, Q&A, and all supporting financial materials. She has participated in various aspects of early IPO-readiness, including hiring internal audit leaders, identifying key risks and internal controls, and evaluating metrics and public company disclosures.

Overall, Karen Walker's experience and expertise make her a vital asset to any organization that values transformation, growth, and financial stability.