Karey Barker

Founder & Managing Partner Cross Creek

Cross Creek Founding Managing Director Karey Barker is a generalist with broad public and private investment experience. During her career, she has invested in a variety of industries, including consumer internet (Angi [formerly Angie’s List], IronPlanet, Scopely, and Ticketfly) healthcare technology (Accolade, Assurex, Carrum, Evidation, Fluidigm), enterprise software (DocuSign, Enverus [formerly DrillingInfo], Simplus, Telogis, Tubemogul) cyber security (Dataminr, Pindrop, and Sourcefire) and manufacturing and supply chain (E2Open, Fictiv). A new area of interest is climate adaptation and sustainability. Karey developed the concept for Cross Creek while working as a portfolio manager at Wasatch Advisors (now doing business as Wasatch Global Investors) where she spent over 15 years managing small-cap public growth funds. Over time, she saw a need to develop expertise in venture capital, to better understand emerging themes and competition. In 2006, she founded Cross Creek within Wasatch to address that need and led the Cross Creek team through its transition to an independent firm in 2012. She served as a member of the Wasatch Advisors Board of Directors for 17 years. Independent of Wasatch or Cross Creek, she previously served on the board of directors for MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD) and currently serves on the board of ARUP Laboratories. Karey holds a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation, as well as a B.A. in Finance and French from the University of Utah. She also studied at the Université d’Angers in France. She enjoys skiing, hiking, and especially traveling with her husband and four children, together known as the “B6.”

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