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Karen Coppock, PhD
Vice President,
Consulting Services
Karen Coppock brings
over a decade of
experience in strategic
business planning for
emerging markets, and
particular strengths in
strategy, business
development, and
research to her role as
Vice President of
Consulting Services.
Prior to joining Vital
Wave Consulting, Dr. Coppock
served as the Director
of Industry
Collaboration for the
Reuters Digital Vision
Program at Stanford
University. In this
capacity, she utilized
her strategy,
partnership development,
and program management
skills to improve the
performance of IT and
telecommunications
start-ups from emerging
markets around the
world.
Before completing her
doctorate in 2005,
Dr. Coppock spent four years
with Telcordia
Technologies, most
recently as Assistant
Vice President of
Strategic Accounts,
Latin America. Prior to
joining Telcordia,
Dr. Coppock launched and
headed the Latin
American regional sales
office for Williams
Communications. She has
also held positions with
INTELSAT, Pacific Bell,
AT&T and Harvard’s
Center for International
Development (Information
Technology Group), Santa
Clara University’s
Global Social Benefit
Incubator and the US
Peace Corps.
Dr. Coppock has led a wide
range of consulting projects focusing on business
and marketing strategies, technological trends and
industry profiles for leading multi-national firms
in the telecommunication markets in the United States and
Latin America. She received her Doctoral and
Master’s degrees in international business from the
Fletcher School, Tufts University. Her fields of
study were development economics, international
technology policy and international business. She
graduated cum laude with dual degrees in business
administration and Spanish from California State
University, Chico. Coppock has lived in Latin
America for almost a decade and is fluent in Spanish.
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