Karen leads the Retail Banking team for Google Cloud in the UK. She has over 20 years financial services experience, having joined Google from Accenture, where she held a leadership role working with a number of banks to support their transformation ambitions. Prior to this, she spent 10 years at SAP, leading the team to shape solutions to deliver business critical change and IT projects for UK financial institutions. At both organisations, Karen has had a focus on Core Banking replacements programmes, understanding both the opportunity and challenge of modernising legacy systems.

Whilst at Accenture, Karen also led the Inclusion and Diversity programme and is passionate about the benefits of creating an environment where everyone feels they can contribute without fear.  Outside of work, she had two daughters, a golden retriever and a desire to do more running.