KweissCT@Gmail.com Karen Weiss is a retained executive recruiter with twenty plus years of executive search experience gained within a top ten executive search firm as well as an S&P 500 company. She works with revolutionary companies to either attract and/or retain elusive "C" level executives. Specialties: Agnostic in industry, function and geography having completed executive searches in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Australia/New Zealand, and South & North America. Major industries served include private equity, financial services, hedge funds, the payment industry, technology/mobility/NFC and manufacturing. Financial Services: Visa, NYCE, BB&T Bank, North Fork Bank/Capital One, C-SAM/MasterCard, Deutsche Bank, Passport Capital, Safra Capital, Bankers Trust, Automotive: General Motors, Mercedes Benz, Collins & Aikman, SouthCo, Kiekert Heavy Manufacturing: Tetra Laval, Dover Corporation, Veba/E.ON, GE & Aluminum Bahrain Consumer Products: Pepsi, Grand Met, Prada Additionally, she has developed a niche for assisting small family owned businesses with succession planning as well as many start ups and private equity holding companies. Middle Eastern Family Offices: Royal Family in the UAE & Bahrain, as well as leading families in Kuwait & Saudi Arabia A graduate of National Outdoor Leadership School(NOLS) & an advanced Naui diver, Ms. Weiss has traveled to over 30 countries; climbing the peaks of Kilimanjaro, the Atlas Mountains & Himalayas; kayaking the currents of Prince William Sound; skiing the slopes of Europe and shooting the rapids of the Gauley River. While in college, Ms. Weiss spent three summers at Shearson Lehman where she rotated through the Unit Trust, Retail Options and Managed Futures (Hedge Funds) groups.

Executive Recruiter @ A•boutique executive search firm with global alliance relationships in US, Europe and Asia. • Working with one of the founding executives of NFC technology, mapped the management teams of the competitive landscape and payment ecosystem to recruit executive leadership team for start up mobile wallet company. Emerging as leaders within the payment ecosystem, firm was acquired by a major card association in 2014 • Retained by Investment Bankers to serve as a strategic partner for mobile technology Portfolio Company. Recruited sitting Fortune 500 CEO to the Board, introduced company to Fortune 10 Business Partner, developed scalable recruiting infrastructure while simultaneously recruiting the senior management team • Conceptualized, developed and partnered with KPMG to create a recruiting pool of Board qualified regulatory and compliance experts populated with retired partners • Serve as a subject matter recruiting strategy expert for a Fortune 10 industrial company • Retained by Chairman of $2B PVF Company to build and drive proactive recruitment & retention program across the organization. Conducted over 20 searches, implemented best practices across candidate tracking systems, candidate experience as well as building sourcing, closing and interviewing programs for both experienced and undergraduate/graduate candidates. • Retained by Forbes Insight to interview Fortune 500 CEO’s/CFO’s & Board Members From 2002 to Present (13 years) Executive Recruiter @ S&P 500 E-commerce consulting firm, recognized on Forbes, Fortune and Business Week’s List of Fastest Growing Companies, experiencing 100% yoy growth, with $500 million in revenues and 3,400 employees. Executive Recruiter/Metro Area Hiring Lead Recruited to collaboratively launch and build a self sufficient, in house Corporate Executive Search function. Serve as the interface between broad range of executive constituencies to drive corporate executive recruitment activities. Actively nurture corporate executives and manage candidate experience allowing the company to attract and retain coveted executives considering multiple opportunities. Senior searches actively conducted in-house included: • President Canada, Corporate General Counsel, Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Corporate Controller, VP Finance, VP Risk Management & Quality Assurance, Director Tax & Treasury, Director Compensation, VP Human Resources, VP Operations-Financial Services, VP Marketing-Recruiting, VP Knowledge Management, Director of Strategy and Program Management • Supervised, mentored and coached multidisciplinary recruitment team of 11 responsible for technology, creative, campus and executive recruitment • Serve as an assimilation and retention resource to minimize the transition process for new executives • Identified, directed and managed external candidate developers and researchers. • Wrote and implemented first formalized reference process • Co-drafted first recruiting training manual/practice guide • Developed and conducted stock model and compensation training classes • Conducted behavioral interviewing training classes • Drove regional undergraduate selection process for an interview day with over 300 students from the top 20 universities in the country • Member Metro Area Leadership Team and Hiring Corporate Leadership Team. • Developed tactical candidate analysis to prioritize and champion regional desires vs. needs with corporate plans From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Managing Director, Executive Recruiter @ KPMG operated a top ten retainer based executive search firm with global offices. In 1990, the US Executive Search Practice was reorganized into an alliance firm, Foster Partners. In addition to managing a full client base, duties were expanded to include international accountability for over 40 overseas offices.Managing Director, Executive Recruiter - International Coordinator (1998-1999) Director, Executive Recruiter - International Coordinator (1994-1997) Managing Associate, Executive Recruiter - International Coordinator (1992-1994) Grew international search revenue 100% + year over year while maintaining and servicing a global customer base. • Spearhead senior level search assignments for global industry leaders including banking, insurance, high technology, consumer products and professional services • Conducted all aspects of the search from position specification development, target universe generation, sourcing, screening, interviewing to compensation negotiations • Established the firm’s first global relationship with a Fortune 50 consumer products company • Leveraged existing relationships with clients in order to introduce other practice areas of the firm • Youngest individual promoted to Managing Director Senior Consulting Associate Executive Recruiter, Consultant Executive Recruiter, Staff Technician Executive Recruiter (1987-1992) • Advanced from a research capacity through a series of progressive client facing roles with increasing responsibilities From 1987 to 1999 (12 years)

BA, Accounting @ Furman University From 1983 to 1987 Bronxville High School From 1979 to 1983 Karen Weiss is skilled in: Executive Recruiting, Hedge Funds, Retention, Talent Acquisition, Payment Systems, College Recruiting, Strategic Consulting, Global Recruiting/India/China, Start-ups, Mobile Technology, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail, Executive Search