Karen A. Twitchell has a B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She has extensive experience on nonprofit and for profit boards. From 2010 to 2013 she was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Landmark Aviation. Prior to that she was Vice President and Treasurer of LyondellBasell. In 2014 the Wiki Education Foundation elected her to its board of directors.