Karen Lorence

Board Member

Karen Lorence is an experienced financial executive with extensive hands-on experience in a wide variety of industries. She is founder and principal at HillPark, LLC, which specializes in advising the principals of closely held private companies preparing to concentrate on expansion and/or attracting outside investment. She provides outsourced CFO and HR management services to clients in a variety of industries, including finance, life sciences, tech, wholesale/retail/e-commerce sales, hospitality, and fashion. She also is a managing member and controller of Carbon Point Partners LP, a hedge fund that invests in carbon allowances and regulatory compliance instruments issued under states’ Cap-and-Trade programs.

She previously served as managing director of Chord Advisors, LLC, a consultancy that provides targeted financial solutions to public companies (small-cap and mid-cap) and small to mid-size private companies, broker-dealers, and pre-IPO companies. For over two decades before that, she was CFO for Green Stamp America, Inc.

Karen is a graduate of Manhattanville College and Columbia University.