Karen Gonzalez Tobias

Karen Gonzalez Tobias has worked in the communications and marketing industry since 2010. Karen started their career at Newmark as a Senior Marketing Coordinator. In 2015, they joined Cushman & Wakefield as a Senior Marketing Specialist, where they developed strategic marketing plans and sales materials to increase internal and external brand awareness. Karen also created and implemented new sales and marketing tools that improved branding aesthetics and content. In 2017, they moved to Elite Communications Group as a Creative Project Manager. In this role, they oversaw design requests and projects from launch to scale while triaging tasks, managing timelines, and ensuring deliverables across ~10 departments. Karen was the key person in establishing project scope, budget, and timelines, resulting in over 800 successful projects exceeding $2.9M in revenue. Karen also leveraged their entrepreneurial vision with expertise in graphic design and HTML programming to increase the company's digital business portfolio by 38%.

Karen Gonzalez Tobias has an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies from City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College. Karen is projected to obtain a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) - MENA in Q1/Q2 2023, as well as a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute in Q1/Q2 2023.