Karesha McGee

Karesha McGee is an accomplished global communications and marketing professional with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. She has provided strategic counsel to Fortune 500 enterprise software companies, high-growth start-ups, and venture capital firms, with a notable portfolio including Slack, Cisco, Oracle, Uber, BEA Systems, and Crosspoint Venture Partners.

Her expertise lies in various aspects of communications and marketing, such as storytelling, narrative development, company positioning, communications strategy for public and private company milestones, crisis communications, reputation management, and executive communications for a range of C-suite executives and founders. She has a broad experience across different communication disciplines, including corporate, product, international, executive, employee/internal, diversity & inclusion, and analyst relations.

Karesha has been a featured speaker at prestigious events and institutions like Google Ventures (GV) Comms Summit, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, VestedWorld, Charles Schwab Leadership Series, and General Assembly.

Her educational background includes an MBA with a focus on general management, marketing, and business in emerging markets from the University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business and Columbia Business School. She also holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Cornell University and has studied Spanish and Anthropology at Universidad de Sevilla.

With a rich professional history, Karesha has held key roles in renowned organizations. She served as VP of Communications handling corporate, executive, and internal communications at Slack. Previously, she was part of Chief, held strategic communications roles at Slack, led global corporate communications at Slack, was a partner at The Pramana Collective, managed executive communications at Uber, oversaw global marketing and corporate communications at Cisco Systems, handled executive communications at Cisco Systems, managed analyst relations and PR at BEA Systems, and worked in public relations at Applied Communications (now Bite Communications).