Karen Hammond is Member of Rhode Island State Investment Commission and Governor at Rhode Island School of Design Museum and on the board of 8 other companies.

In her past career Ms. Hammond occupied the position of Treasurer & Senior Vice President at FMR LLC Chief Administrative Officer & Vice President at Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLC and Managing Director at Devonshire Investors LLC (both are subsidiaries of FMR LLC), Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer of Citizens Bank of Massachusetts and Chief Operating Officer-Investments at FIL Investments (Japan) Ltd.

She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado Boulder.