Full Name
Karen Korponai
Job Title
Investing and Philanthopy FO Advisor
Company
Konscious Konsulting
Speaker Bio
Karen Korponai actively engages in philanthropic initiatives led by prominent family offices, supporting innovative, mission-driven foundations that address urgent global challenges. She leads strategic partnerships at BlueLight Humanitarian Airlines—founded by Pierre Bernheim (third-generation heir to Raymond Weil) and Waleed Rawat (fourth-generation heir to the HM Rawat Group)—which provides rapid-response airlift and logistics to deliver aid in crisis zones. She also serves as a Board Member of the Playing For Change Foundation, co-founded by Whitney Kroenke Walton, leveraging music as a catalyst for social change by expanding access to music education for children in underserved communities across 27 countries. Since its launch, she has served as an Advisor to Daughters for Earth, co-founded by Jody Allen, where she led the creation and implementation of its 2025 Donor Strategy, mobilizing women and catalytic grant funding to advance nature-based solutions across more than 230 programs in over 50 countries. Through these initiatives, she advances high-impact strategies that blend entrepreneurial thinking with lasting social and environmental impact.
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