Karen Beltramo’s main focus is on the creation, maintenance, and alignment of the LaunchBoard, a suite of data inquiry tools that provide information on offerings, students, progress, success and employment and earnings outcomes for community colleges as well as for K-12 and adult education schools for their students transitioning into postsecondary. She has extensive experience working with various entities connected with the community colleges as a Data Research Analyst on gathering, structuring, interpreting, analyzing, and sharing labor market and student data to help stakeholders make informed strategic decisions on how to improve outcomes for students. Karen also has experience in the private sector working in the US and Europe in financial and strategic forecasting and planning. She has an Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis on Strategic Management from L’Ecole HEC Paris and Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and French from the University of California at Berkeley.