CEO of Redcliffe Advisory, FCSI (Hon). A champion of the City of London with a reputation as a benign disruptor — connecting the worlds of Finance, Deep Tech and Defence.
Karina connects the worlds of Finance, Deep Tech and Defence — with a deep belief in the power of moderate Diversity & Inclusion.
Karina is Senior Advisor to Multiverse Computing, Europe’s largest quantum & AI software firm and winner of Europe’s Future Unicorn Award 2024. She founded The City Quantum & AI Summit, now in its Sixth Anniversary year, is a member of the UKQuantum Working Group on International Cooperation and Trade, and was involved in brainstorming NATO’s Quantum Strategy. She is an EIC Accelerator judge, targeting funds at promising Deep Tech in critical fields like space, and advises MissionLink and The Entrepreneurs Network. She recently joined the Global India Business Corridor (GIBC UK) as Executive Advisor to the Board, with the aim of deepening trade and investment between the UK and India.
She chaired the Lord Mayor’s Appeal Advisory Board and was a Trustee of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal. She is a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and an Honorary Fellow of the CISI, and sits as a NED on the board of Atlanti. At the LSE she is an Emeritus Governor and Co-Director of The Inclusion Initiative.
She ran Robinson Hambro with City legend Rupert Hambro CBE for over a decade, and was Senior Advisor to Cambridge Quantum. Most of her career was in journalism — Senior Editor of The Banker, the International Herald Tribune’s banking columnist, and a correspondent at Bloomberg. She began at merchant bank Morgan Grenfell.
Educated in Madrid, at the Hotchkiss School in the US, and at the London School of Economics. Fluent in four languages.