Primary Job Title President and Board Member Primary Organization 
Southeast TechInventures
Location Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Regions Research Triangle, East Coast, Southern US Gender Female
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Karen LeVert is CEO and co-founder of Southeast TechInventures, Inc. (STI). STI is a technology accelerator focused on migrating the most promising technologies from university research labs to the commercial marketplace.
Ms. LeVert’s business experience encompasses both corporate and entrepreneurial worlds with leadership experience in
entrepreneurial ventures, executive management, finance, and information technology. She began her career with a Fortune-500 company assuming roles from computer programmer, to systems manager, to controller, to general manager of a 500-person business unit. Her first entrepreneurial venture was the launch of a franchise bioremediation company in 1998 that focused on the eradication of grease, sugars, and starches. She sold the business in 2001. Before co-founding STI, Karen co-launched a Silicon Valley venture-funded software company where she served as Executive Vice-President of Business Development. Karen holds an MBA from the University of Dayton and an Information Technology undergraduate degree from Eastern Michigan University.
Along with her current professional duties she serves as a board member to Southeast TechInventures, Council for Entrepreneurial Development, North Carolina School of Science and Math, and was appointed by Governor Perdue to serve on North Carolina’s Innovation Council and the NC Council for Women.
