Speaker

Karen Gaydon joined Synaptics in December 2012 and serves as the Senior Vice President of Human Resources.

 

Ms. Gaydon is responsible for the design and development of HR strategies and processes that drive the Synaptics business objectives and the company’s unique culture. She also oversees charitable activities, healthy workplace initiatives, and corporate real estate planning.Prior to joining Synaptics, Karen held multiple senior HR leadership positions at Hewlett Packard where she was most recently a member of the Executive Human Resources Council, reporting to the Human Resources Executive Vice President. Her background includes Vice President roles in several business units across the U.S. and Europe.

 

Karen has extensive experience leading organizational transformations, driving large scale global change and growth, delivering mergers and acquisitions and building a world class Human Resources team.