Karen Bacot

With over 15 years experience as a Marketing Executive, Karen Bacot has shouldered management accountability for global marketing operations for three international luxury resort developments.

Her responsibilities have included: building successful luxury brands, engineering multinational marketing plans, effectively managing budgets, and instituting ROI metrics to evaluate efficiency of marketing strategies.

Karen's most notable achievements have been with Kiawah Development Partners in Charleston, SC, where she led an award winning creative team for over a decade and was the 2008 recipient of the American Advertising Federation Silver Medal Award for outstanding contributions to advertising and furthering industry standards.

In 2009, she became an accredited deliverer of MathMarketing’s proven B2B marketing training.

An interactive solutions enthusiast, Karen is fascinated with new media’s potential to connect people with brands, to build loyal communities, and to apply new processes and tools to unify sales and marketing teams to improve the customer experience.

Karen and her family spend most of their leisure time in gyms across the Upstate watching her daughter play volleyball.