Katie oversees the strategy and implementation of public relations and marketing communications at Norwest Venture Partners. She also advises Norwest portfolio companies on their marketing and corporate communications strategies and participates in international business development efforts.
Before joining Norwest in 2001, Katie was director of corporate communications at Calico Commerce, Inc., an e-commerce software company, where she was responsible for strategic planning and execution of public relations, investor relations, and customer relations programs.
Earlier, Katie was an account supervisor at the Horn Group, a San Francisco-based public relations consultancy, where she developed and managed full-spectrum corporate public relations programs for such companies as Calico Commerce, Norwest Venture Partners, Commerce One, the Chasm Group, Eloquent, McKinsey & Company's electronic commerce practice, and Visigenic Software (acquired by Borland). Previously she worked in the Ketchum Public Relations Technology Group in San Francisco, where her clients included Hewlett Packard, Federal Express, and Genentech.
Katie holds a bachelor of science in journalism with a concentration in public relations from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.