Karen Fischer  

Karen has 20 years experience in the hi-technology sector in product management, marketing and sales.  She has held executive roles with start-up companies as well has experience working for larger organizaions and Fortune 500 companies where she has been responsible developing and growing the business in marketing, sales and channel development roles. 

Start-up Experience

Karen was the first employee hired in the Siemens Enterprise Networks Division in Canada where she worked closely with executive management on development of the business plan and go to market strategy for regaining access to the Enterprise telecom portfolio in the Canadian market. The first 18 months was spent building a new business for the products in the Canadian market including securing funding and support from the home office in Munich, Germany.  She was responsible ongoing for development and management of the channel in Canada along with overall marketing for that division.  

Karen worked for illumiCell Corporation, now Multiplied Media as Director of Partner Development which was a start-up based out of Calgary, Alberta in the local search market.  She was the 5th employee and not only was responsible for partner development and management, she worked closely with the Investor Relations firm on materials and marketing requirements and deliverables required through the IPO process.  Most recently Karen was Vice President of Business Development at Aizan Technologies which was a mature SaaS voice solutions start-up in Richmond Hill, Ontario where she was responsible for building their Tier 2 channels to market and channel strategy and was a member of the executive team.

Additional Experience

Karen held a General Manager's role at Pitney Bowes Canada where she had overall responsibility for a 8M P&L and 41 employees at a purchased acquisition of a dealer of mailing equipment.  In addition,  has also held various marketing, product management, channel development, and  sales roles at Cognos, Corel, Entrust, and Mitel.

Karen has a B.A. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in Psychology and a minor in computer science. 

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