Katelyn is a co-founder and director of Delivery Associates, the leading public sector advisory firm implementing technology and large-scale reform all over the world. She is an angel investor and venture scout for several early-stage funds. Constantly curious, she’s invested in and advised entrepreneurs building companies in a wide range of sectors including coding bootcamps, carbon capture, enterprise SaaS, femtech, subscription retail, and several more.
Previously, she co-founded and served as the Managing Director of Pearson Ventures (prior PALF), a $65M venture fund that invests seed and series A education tech companies. Katelyn also led strategy and implementation of Pearson’s global efficacy strategy and was on the founding team of the FT125 Club, a division of the Financial Times.
Katelyn is a Kauffman Fellow - Class 21. She was named to Corporate Venturing Power List and Forbes 30 Under 30. She is a frequent author and has published essays on economics, education, innovation, venture capital, corporate governance, and government policy that have been translated in over 5 languages and distributed around the world.
Katelyn started as her career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in San Francisco. She worked on credit market sustainability with the World Economic Forum and presented at the Annual Meeting in Davos in 2011.
Katelyn loves skiing, appreciating beautiful design, and reading. She is learning web development, the art of letterpress and printmaking, and kite surfing.