Carolyn has over 15 years of experience in project and account management, business development, sales, and marketing. Most recently, Carolyn was at The TOCH Agency, a custom product development and sourcing agency, where she played a key role in strategically planning and executing customer-driven strategies in all lines of business as well as cultivating beneficial business relationships based on mutual interests. She has also held various business development, marketing, and analyst and media relations roles for wide a range of technology companies, including early-stage start-ups such as Trumba Corporation and Nimble Technology, and later stage growth companies such as Envision, Inc.  Prior to that, Carolyn worked as the Executive Assistant to the CEO at Visio Corporation (acquired by Microsoft in 2000), where she supported the CEO in his business objectives, board relations and engagements, facilitated internal and external corporate due diligence, as well as executed company events.

 

In addition to her professional background, she has diverse networking experience and has been active in several professional, cultural and civic organizations. Some of her outside interests include spending time with her family and her friends, creative writing, cooking, yoga, attending the theatre and the ballet, and the fashion industry. Carolyn holds a Bachelors degree in Communication Theory from Western Washington University.