Karla Soler

Background

About Karla Soler

Karla’s experience spans over two decades and across industries (and continents), from technology to professional services. She spent the first chapter of her career successfully in the consulting business, coaching both business and public sectors in intercultural competence. She then pivoted and led AMER operations teams in a Fortune 500 technology firm in the United States, and later advised in a Ventures Accelerator on issues relating to knowledge management in Sweden. She is now the Executive Director of the Dynamic Competition Initiative, ensuring that creating and capturing value from innovation has priority in the policymaking of liberal democracies. She also heads the Operations of the Center for Intellectual Property, transforming knowledge into wealth and welfare; and teaches Master's students, at the Chalmers University of Technology, about digital platform business models. In her free time, she sits on the Advisory Board of the African Institute for Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Tech Transfer (AIIPITT); a Rwandan-born initiative to enable young African creators to stay in control of their intellectual capital.Karla is known for her love and commitment to driving impact while enabling a wide range of win-win collaborations. Karla is T-shaped professional always ready to take in new challenges.Karla’s educational background includes business, legal studies, political science, public policy, industrial engineering, and intellectual capital management. She is a former professional contemporary dancer, a polyglot, and an advocate for diversity as a source of competitive advantage. Knowledge-based businesses | Intellectual Asset Management | Business Strategy | Platform Business Models | Project Management| Entrepreneurship | Innovation | Leadership | Venture Capital |