Karen Wilmer

CEO Emeritus

Karen’s role of CEO evolved from the Chief Operations Officer position that she primarily held at FFY since making the transition to non-profit organizational management in 2004. During her time with Friends of Youth, she has led numerous operational improvement projects, donor development initiatives for individual and corporate gifting, marketing, IT strategy, finance and human resources.

Karen’s previous for-profit career included vice-president of brand management for national and international businesses for corporations including Neutrogena, Oral-B, and Gillette; as well as a leadership role in a successful start up and IPO. Karen also ran a successful marketing consulting business (FBM Consulting) for 8 years.