Kathryn Hanson

Biography

Kathryn currently serves on three non-profit boards: ReSurge International, which provides reconstructive surgery for the poor in Africa, Asia and South America; Downtown College Prep (DCP), which is a 4-school charter group serving low income Latinos who are first generation to college; and Creating Hope International, which serves women and girls in Afghanistan. She has served as a board member on several for-profit companies, including Trident and Tab Inc., as well as on boards for several non-profit companies in the education space, including ALearn and RAFT. In her board capacity, she helped to build effective, diverse boards with expertise, candor, and collaborative problem-solving capabilities. She has led boards on Nominating and Governance issues, from strategic guidance to board assessment to board composition and recruitment.

She also founded and was CEO of Alearn, a non-profit which provided education services to underserved students to get them on the path to college, and has served as a mentor to first generation students. Kathryn has over 30 years of executive management and consulting experience in high tech companies, with an excellent track record in launching new products, new companies, and new channels.