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Karen King
Managing Director at Silver Lake
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Karen King is the Managing Director at Silver Lake in Menlo Park, California, with a background in corporate counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. She has served on the boards of companies like Franklin Templeton and Qualtrics. Karen has made investments in early-stage FinTech companies like Momentum.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2004 - Current
Trusted senior executive. Creative problem solver. Deep relationship builder. Integrally involved in all aspects of the firm's business. Highly engaged in numerous large-scale transactions for Silver Lake. Also work directly with multiple portfolio companies, including serving or having served on the boards of Relativity, Qualtrics, Aras and Serena Software. Joined Silver Lake in 2004 and previously served as GC before becoming Managing Director & CLO. Also help oversee talent and culture and have served as interim global head of communications. Member of the firm’s Risk Committee, Valuation Committee, Cyber Governance Committee, ED&I Committee and Charitable Commitment Committee.
Board Member
2021
Franklin Templeton is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments.
Board Member
2023
Qualtrics is a single system of record for all experience data, managing customer, product, employee, and brand experiences on one platform.
Raised $3,150,000,000.00 from Accel, BDT & MSD Partners, CPP Investments, Susquehanna Growth Equity and DFO Management.
Board Member
2021
Relativity's makes software to manage large volumes of data and identify key issues during litigation, investigations, and compliance.
Raised $125,000,000.00 from ICONIQ Growth, Silver Lake, Permira and ICONIQ Growth.
Board Member
2019 - 2021
Aras is a suite of open source product life cycle management (PLM) software solutions that run on a model-based SOA application framework.
Raised $138,201,781.00 from GS Growth and GI Partners.
Board Member
2013 - 2014
Serena Software offers solutions that orchestrate application delivery, IT management and business processes for public companies worldwide.
Corporate Counsel - Capital Markets and M&A
1997 - 2002