Karen Roy

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About Karen Roy

Senior Executive Assistant supporting C-level executives. Experience in high profile executive interaction and heavy calendar management. Adept at handling changes and priorities in a fast-paced environment. Act as executive's gatekeeper, effectively manage and maintain complex executive calendars, manage commercial and private jet travel arrangements, and coordinate expense reporting. Consistently recognized for presenting a positive attitude, managing all situations with professionalism, and demonstrating organizational skills while emphasizing confidentiality, diplomacy and efficiency. Support: Partner with executives and maintain strong communication. Make independent judgements and recommendations to ensure day-to-day engagements and proactively recommend changes and improvements to streamline processes and priorities. Time Management: Schedule ever-changing meetings and travel arrangements for executives ensuring deadlines and obligations are met. Act as gatekeeper ensuring executives are prepared with materials and information prior to meetings/travel, exercise discretion and tact. Collaboration: Manage and coordinate logistics for meetings and events including staff meetings, executive briefings, all-hands meetings and off-site meetings Communication: On behalf of C-level executives, respond to requests and inquiries in a clear verbal and written manner. Serve as an information source to other departments and more junior Executive Assistants. Organization: Superior organizational and communication skills with ability to multi-task. Comfortable interacting with internal staff and external associates. Provide high-level support to senior-level executives protecting highly confidential corporate information. Able to handle sensitive business communications, data and other information with professionalism, confidentiality and discretion, both internally with employees and externally with clients. Experienced in supporting high-net-worth-individuals.