Karen Monks
Karen Monks is an Analyst in Celent's insurance practice and is based in Richmond, Virginia. She brings a broad range of insurance and consulting experience to her work as she has worked as a management consultant to and within insurance carriers and other financial services companies for over 15 years.
Ms. Monks’ research concentrates on life insurance technology and trends. A few of the reports she has written concentrated on new business and underwriting, mobile technology, and policy administration systems. She has been the coauthor of the past two Celent North American Insurance software deal trends reports. Recent consulting projects include a marketing and distribution management systems review and several small life insurance technology analyses.
Ms. Monks’ research has been featured in Insurance & Technology, Insurance Networking News, and Technology Decisions.
Ms. Monks began her career as a Financial Management Program Trainee for General Electric. After completing her MBA, she joined Coopers & Lybrand’s Financial Services management consulting group. She has also worked as a management consultant for John Hancock’s internal consulting division, focusing on strategic projects driven by IT and was a contract consultant for TowerGroup’s Consulting Services Group where she worked on various FS projects. Prior to joining Celent, Ms Monks was a financial analyst for a small Richmond, VA financial valuation firm.
Ms Monks has a BA, cum laude, in economics from Union College, Schenectady, New York and an MBA from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.