Karen Cuppett Piontkowski

Karen Cuppett Piontkowski began her career in printing and production in 1980. She spent three years as a print buyer for a forms and document management company. In 1981, at the age of 23, she became the first of three women to attain their certification as a Forms and Business Systems Consultant, issued by the National Business Forms Association. Currently, there are only 1500 CFCs in the world.

In 1983, she joined AB&C Group as an Assistant Vice President in the Forms Management Division. AB&C moved into direct response and fulfillment and Karen moved into that division at inception as the Vice President of Marketing and Systems. Shortly thereafter, she was promoted to Senior Vice President. Karen was responsible for new business development as well as leading the company into new markets requiring fulfillment and the response processing services of the company.