Karen Richardson

Karen Richardson is an American executive. Her 30-year career in the software business includes positions in several companies.

Career

Richardson sits on corporate boards including BP, the British energy company[1];Exponent, a Silicon Valley-based engineering and scientific consulting company;[2] States Title, which uses machine learning to automate real estate closings;[3]and Artius Capital, a special purpose acquisition corporation.[4]

Richardson was a member of the board of directors of BT Group plc.[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 named among the "100 most influential women in tech" by a technology industry website in 2015.[9]

Richardson was a board member of VirtuOz[10] until January 2013, when the company was purchased by Nuance Communications;[11] she was on the advisory board of Proofpoint Inc., a provider of email security and compliance products[12] and was 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 also served on the board of Ayasdi before it was sold.[18]

Richardson is a former adviser to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity investment firm.[19] She also is a former member of the board of the San Francisco Opera,[20] which she joined as part of a push by that institution to include more technology leaders.[21][22] She also serves on the advisory board of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program[23] at Stanford University.

Previously, Richardson served as chief executive of E.piphany, a developer of customer relationship management software. She also held several senior sales positions at Netscape Communications Corp. from 1995–1998. As executive vice president of sales at Netscape, Richardson concentrated on markets such as telecommunications and financial services and the development of new markets. 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 a variety of sales and marketing roles as well as at cc:Mail and 3Com Corporation.

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).[24]

Personal life

Her grandfather was a farmer from Saskatchewan who graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford; her mother entered Stanford at 16 to study mathematics, and her father is also a Stanford alumnus.[25] She is married to Jon Rubinstein,[26] former co-CEO of investment firm Bridgewater Associates;[27] prior to that, Rubinstein had been executive chairman and CEO of Palm and former senior vice president of Apple Inc.'s iPod division.[28]

References
  1. Penman, Hamish (2020-12-18). "BP announces non-executive director appointments and retirements". Energy Voice. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  2. "Exponent (EXPO) Form 8-K, Sept. 11, 2013". Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  3. "Karen Richardson joins the States Title board of directors". Business Insider. 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  4. "Artius Capital". Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  5. Technology guru joins BT as new director, 2011-10-19
  6. "BRIEF-BT Says Karen Richardson,Tony Ball To Step Down From Board At..." Reuters. 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
  7. "Directorate Change". Financial Times. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
  8. Basch, Mark (2019-07-31). "FIS completes $43 billion Worldpay acquisition". Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  9. Stojanovic, Peter (28 August 2015). "The 100 leading females shaping tech innovation". Hot Topics. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  10. VirtuOz press release, 2010-02-12, archived from the original on 2017-09-06, retrieved 2010-02-20
  11. Confirmed: Nuance Has Bought Virtual Assistant Specialist VirtuOz To Ramp Up Its Enterprise Services, 2013-01-10
  12. http://www.proofpoint.com/news-and-events/press-releases/pressdetail.php?PressReleaseID=56 Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. Social Networking Site Hi5 Nearly Doubles Monthly Visitors, InformationWeek, August 15, 2008
  14. Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor Hi5, The Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2011
  15. "Karen Richardson". LinkedIn. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  16. "2015 Disruptor 50". CNBC. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  17. IBM Completes i2 Acquisition to Expand Big Data Analytics Portfolio for Smarter Cities, 2011-10-05
  18. "Leadership". Ayasdi. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  19. Meet Silver Lake: The Hot Private Equity Firm of the Moment, The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2011
  20. "San Francisco Opera Association Announces New Board President-Elect Keith Geeslin; Election of New Directors from Technology, Corporate and Philanthropic Communities". San Francisco Opera. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  21. Farr, Christina. "The Opera goes to Silicon Valley, hopes that Silicon Valley will return the favor". VentureBeat. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  22. Zinko, Carolyne (2013-08-23). "Old money welcomes new (tech) blood to the arts". SFGate.com. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  23. "Stanford Technology Ventures Program Advisory Board Web site". Archived from the original on 2014-02-20.
  24. "Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  25. "Karen Richardson: A Girl Among Geeks | Stanford eCorner". ecorner-legacy.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  26. New tech to the arts
  27. "Bridgewater Hires Ex-Apple Executive as Co-CEO". Wall Street Journal. March 10, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  28. Perry, Tekla (September 2008). "From Podfather to Palm's Pilot". IEEE Spectrum.
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