Karen Vaites

Karen has built the marketing functions from scratch at multiple K–12 startups, both nonprofit and for-profit. At nonprofit Open Up Resources, she launched the new brand and led the organization to a market leader position as it went from zero revenue to $40M+ in 1.5 years; at Noodle Markets, where she was Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Product Officer; award-winning literacy solution LightSail, where she was CMO; and at nonprofit Student Achievement Partners, where she launched the brand and the marketing strategy for achievethecore.org, now one of the top sources of quality OER content. Karen began her career in online travel, becoming Expedia's youngest-ever Managing Director while leading Expedia’s Distribution business in Europe. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College, where she captained the Women’s Swim Team.

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