Karen Williams

Karen Williams has a long and successful career in sales and customer success. Karen began their career in 1988 with Adecco as an Area Vice President, Branch Manager, and Account Manager. In 2017, they joined Decker Communications as a Manager-Strategic Relationships. In this role, they helped boost Decker's growth by developing new business, building trusted relationships, and securing business with dormant accounts. In 2019, they secured three major new accounts which generated $350K in revenue. In 2021, they joined ApplePie Capital as a Commercial Relationship Manager and Sales and Customer Success. At ApplePie Capital, their role involves providing franchise financing to entrepreneurs and enabling investors to earn attractive fixed-income returns.

Karen Williams earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara between 1984 and 1988. Karen has also obtained several certifications, including HR as a Business Partner from LinkedIn in May 2021, Excel Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365) from LinkedIn in January 2021, Miller Heiman Sales Training from Miller Heiman Group in June 2019, Decker Listen. Learn. Lead from Decker Communications in September 2018, and Decker Communicate to Influence from Decker Communications in September 2017.