Karen grew up in Portland, Oregon and also lived in Arizona before moving to the UK in 2006 after a successful career in senior sales and marketing management, spanning 19 years with a prominent food broker in the USA.

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Karen is well travelled and has also spent some time working as a travel agent. She is very people orientated and throughout her career developed a wealth of experience in managing teams, communicating effectively and achieving results through people.

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At Matrix Capital, Karen plays a key role in ensuring client experience and service is of excellent standards… one way is through the increasingly famous chocolate chip cookies that she bakes fresh for all client meetings!

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Karen holds a variety of qualifications around subjects of business administration, sales, marketing and operations management; and also training in the USA and Australia to become a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Timeline Therapy and Hypnotherapy. She also studied at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

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Karen has fully settled into life in the UK, passionate about its countryside and is an active committee member of Morville Countryside Club.

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The middle of three sisters with one niece and three nephews, and a great aunt of two – in her spare time, Karen enjoys spending it with family – including her cats, Haggis and Tiger! Additional interests include swimming, cooking, singing, meditation and travel.