Katy began the design chapter of her career at Memento, serving as lead product designer to a fintech product that combined predictive statistical modelling and novel data visualizations to detect, document, and prosecute check fraud within banks.
As a lead designer for Fathom Information Design, Katy designed interactive visualizations and exploratory tools to engage with large data sets for clients such as Thomson Reuters, Gates Foundation, World Bank Group, Knight Foundation, and GE.
In 2014 she co-founded Trill, an arts technology startup focused on strengthening local ecosystems of performers, venues, presenters and audiences. Trill was a semi-finalist in the MIT Sloan 100k competition, a finalist in MassChallenge 2014, and a winner of the Berklee School of Music’s 2014 Venture Day.
When Carbonite acquired and integrated four enterprise product companies in three years, Katy put structures like design program management, executive readouts, a unified enterprise design system, and an editorial style guide in place to ensure that her small but migthy team could execute efficiently at scale.
The lure of startups came calling again, and in 2019 Katy joined the founding team of Atlas: a remote-first fintech dedicated to bringing modern software to enterprise risk management. From the early days of sitting in the room with just a founding engineer and a founding product manager, Katy facilitated a collective vision and strategy for the Atlas MVP feature set and then supported it from scratch to a fully realized enterprise platform in two years. She currently manages design and product functions for the Atlas team.
Katy holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon and a M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has served on the faculty of Northeastern University and the Rhode Island School of Design, with a particular focus on product, interaction, and information design.