MIT World Speakers

Karina Funk CE ‘97

Karina Funk joined Winslow Management Company after working as an independent consultant to entrepreneurs and venture capital investors in the clean energy space. Prior to joining Winslow, she managed direct investments at the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, where she launched an $8 million initiative for early-stage companies and managed the Trust's commitment as lead LP of the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, a $17 million venture capital fund. Earlier in her career, Karina was a strategy consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and before that she was at Électricité de France, advising their corporate strategy division on the economics of alternative energy technologies.

Funk holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, two Masters degrees from MIT, and a post-graduate diploma from the École Polytechnique in France. She is a CFA charterholder.