Karen Davis JD

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Biography

Ms. Karen Roter Davis serves as Managing Partner at Entrada Ventures. She spent over a decade in executive leadership at Alphabet, from pre-IPO to more recently. From 2017 until February 2022, she was Director of Early Stage Projects at X (formerly Google X), where she provided strategic direction and oversight for a portfolio of early-stage technology ventures. As Corporate Counsel and then Principal of New Business Development from 2003-2008, she oversaw internal operations for Google's groundbreaking 2004 IPO and scaled some of the company's innovative, early-stage businesses. In September 2016, she returned to Google as Director for mapping and local search strategy and business development by way of Alphabet's acquisition of Urban Engines, a geospatial analytics platform. Previously, she served as Managing Director of GE Digital, where she kick-started partnerships, acquisition, and investment strategies to advance GE's Industrial Internet capabilities across its multi-billion dollar industrial businesses. She has taught Business of Innovation as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, where she earned her MBA/JD. She earned her BA from Princeton University's School of Public & International Affairs.