A true entrepreneur who bootstrapped On-Disk.com with a $300 personal investment to over $100,000 in gross sales in less than two years while understanding it's biggest competitor is a server offering free downloads.
Karlie merges her background in Not-for-Profit management, Business Management and Technology sales to advocate for Open Source. She is active with many FOSS groups, but most recently has focused on getting the Rochester Institute of Technology up to speed Teaching Open Source development to students which was the topic of her talk at the 2009 Ontario GNU/Linux Fest.
When she's not diving into Open Source development projects or taking care of business, family and home, Karlie can be found at SCORE Rochester counseling small business start ups. Her work with SCORE Rochester earned her the Gold Member Award in 2009.
