Karen Geary

Independent Non-Executive Director

Karen was appointed as Independent Non-executive Director in December 2020. Karen is interim Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Risk Committee and Nomination and Governance Committee.

Karen brings over 20 years of executive leadership experience across start-up and listed blue-chip organisations, as well as international HR and business transformation experience across a variety of industries, particularly in Europe and the US. In addition to her role at Sabre, Karen also holds external appointments as a Non-executive Director of Mobico Plc and as a Non-executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of PageGroup plc. Karen is a former FTSE100 HR director with an extensive track record in the technology industry. Between 1998 and 2013, Karen was with The Sage Group plc, where she built and led the HR function as Group HR Director and from 2004 was a member of the Executive Committee. Subsequent to this Karen held senior positions with a US based software business, followed by a FTSE 100 software company which she originally joined as Non-executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee. Since 2019 Karen has pursued a non-executive portfolio career.