Biography

Karen currently serves on the boards of Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) where she serves on the Audit Committee, Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS)- chairing the Audit Committee and serving on the Compensation Committee and GitLab – serving as Audit Committee Chairman. She previously served on the board of Ellie Mae (NYSE: Elli) – chairing the Merger & Acquisition Committee and served on the Audit Committee. She also served on the boards of 2 private companies LogRhythm (acquired by Thoma Bravo) and MetricStream. Blasing served as Chief Financial Officer for Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GDWR) from July 2009 through March 2015, where she led the company’s successful initial public offering in January 2012 and two subsequent follow-on offerings. Ms. Blasing has also served as Chief Financial Officer for Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell), Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), and Counterpane Internet Security (acquired by BT). She has held senior finance roles at salesforce.com, Informix Corporation (acquired by IBM), Oracle Corporation and Syntex Pharmaceuticals (now Roche). She holds B.A.’s in both Economics and Business Administration from the University of Montana and an MBA from the University of Washington.