Karen leads the Xbox Console Development team at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus, managing a team of electrical engineers who work on building the current and future hardware of Microsoft’s best-selling entertainment platform. Over her 12 years at Microsoft, Karen has been behind a number of major launches, first on Microsoft’s TV products and Xbox. Her team’s focus is on product designs for high-volume manufacturing that make Xbox a profitable business for Microsoft. Karen holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and lives with her husband and 2 children in Mountain View.