The Keen founding team, (L to R) Martin, Catharine, Frank, and Karen
Meet the Keen Team!
Catharine McNally founded Keen Guides with her vision to create more mainstream accessible experiences for everyone. Deaf since eight months old, she’s a tireless advocate for her peers through her Board services for the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and the National Cued Speech Association. At Keen, Catharine focuses on the market strategy and all aspects of video production and distribution.
She’s a big fan of Super Mario Wii, tending her garden, and taking creative photographs. Catharine seldom boasts her marksman skill with a world-class antique Browning. While she always gets the clay targets, she misses the real birds on purpose.
Karen Borchert has been a startup junkie for nearly twenty years, starting with her first business at age 11 – a neighborhood summer camp that she ran for 2 years. Since then, she’s started and led college campus organizations, organized service trips abroad, and run an award-winning nonprofit organization (which she also started) for ten years before joining Keen Guides. Every day at Keen, she utilizes her wealth of experience in business strategy and strategic partnership development to move Keen forward.
To add to her list of accomplishments and talents, she’s an accomplished cook for her family and friends. Not surprisingly, turning that skill into a side catering gig for friends…and once cooked dinner for Michael Jordan!
Martin Franklin met Karen while working on Keen Guides in its earliest days at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown. With a real knack for numbers and another startup under his belt, Martin brought great balance to the Keen Guides team. To add to that, he’s a world traveler – hailing from South Africa – and can share the perspectives of a foreign traveler. With his background in industrial engineering and technology management, Martin is able to monitor Keen’s technology development, the finances, and importantly all things legal.
When Martin isn’t at Keen, you can find him on the golf course, walking around the National Mall with his family, or working the livestock and fields on their farm in rural Shenandoah Valley.
For more information on our team, please view the individual LinkedIn profiles below:
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