Karen has over 20 years of banking experience and over 15 in the fraud industry, serving in some of the nation’s larger financial institutions with asset sizes of up to 200B in assets. She is currently Senior Vice President/Director of Financial Crimes and Fraud Intelligence at M&T Bank, where she is responsible for Fraud Detection Strategy and several teams of investigators and analysts.

Karen is an active member of the ABA, ACFE, BPI, FS-ISAC and the IAFCI; obtaining her Certification in Cyber Crime Investigations, Certification in Financial Crime Investigations, as well as CFE.

She is a fraud industry professional, holding a position on the ABA fraud advisory group, BPI Steering Committee, is the Chair for the Fraud Monitoring Task force for FDX, Co Chairs the Cyber Fraud Industry Group, and most recently part of the Federal Reserve Scam Info Sharing Working Group.