Karen Xu joined ORBCOMM in 2023 and leads the company's worldwide financial operations, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, tax and treasury. She has 20 years of experience in corporate finance, strategy, operations, and investment. Prior to ORBCOMM, Ms. Xu served as the global Chief Financial Officer and Acting Chief Operating Officer for Honeywell’s Connected Supply Chain and Connected Safety & Productivity sectors, driving industrial automation and IoT SaaS transformation. She was also the Americas Chief Financial Officer at General Electric, scaling their industrial IoT and SaaS business in the Power and Energy sector. Ms. Xu began her career in the buy-side and banking, helping large institutional investors make investment decisions, and spent nine years in strategy and operations consulting mainly with Deloitte and EY, where she served Fortune 500 and PE-backed companies with a focus on finance transformation, process improvement, M&A, and IPOs. Ms. Xu received a M.B.A. from Emory University and a B.S. in Finance from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics and is a Certified Management Accountant.