Karen O'Connor

Karen O'Connor is an accomplished Channel Sales Manager with extensive experience in building and managing strategic partnerships in the cybersecurity and cloud sectors. Currently at Sysdig, Karen drives revenue growth through key national partners across the Central and East US, coordinating with major cloud providers such as Google and AWS. Previous roles include Channel Sales Director at SafeBreach, where revenue and partner relationships were developed for offensive security solutions, and Partner Director at Elastic, where partnerships in data solutions for security were built. Karen's career also encompasses significant positions at Symantec, Blue Coat Systems, B2M Solutions, BelAir Networks, Workshare, and Sophos, consistently achieving over-quota performance and fostering robust partner ecosystems. Karen holds a B.S. in Business and Public Administration from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas.