Karen Vignare

Director of The Customer Experience, MSU Global

Karen Vignare is Director of The Customer Experience at MSU Global Ventures. She is responsible for growing globally accessible, innovative online customized professional development programs like the award winning Horticulture Gardening Institute. Karen Vignare brings a cross-disciplinary skill set to MSU Global with backgrounds in research, teaching, financial research and political economics.

Karen joins MSU Global most recently from the Rochester Institute of Technology where she served as a Senior Research Analyst in Online Learning. At RIT she was also the Associate Director for Marketing Online Learning. She is a passionate educator and continued teaching courses she developed: Marketing on the Internet and Customer Relationship Management. Before RIT, Karen was an Assistant Professor for Retail, Marketing and Business Technologies at the State University of NY, Alfred.

Her career began on Wall Street where she served as a Vice-President and Research Analyst for Political Economics. She is on the Advisory Board of National Telecommunications University Network and the editorial board of EdPath and Distance Education. She regularly reviews books on online learning and papers for the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, IEEE and International Conference on System Sciences.

Karen Vignare has an M.B.A from the Simon School at the University of Rochester and is currently enrolled in doctoral courses at Nova Southeastern University in Computer Technology for Education.