Karen Painter
SVP, Enterprise Applications
Turner Broadcasting System

At Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Karen Painter leads an applications development team supporting The Entertainment Networks (TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, TCM, CNN News Networks, Turner’s Corporate Group, and the sports division). The Enterprise Applications Department focuses on technology solutions that are primarily internal-facing. These IT solutions are comprised of database administration, system architecture, software development, software quality assurance, business analysis, research and development, project management, and security and process improvement.

Ms. Painter has been with Turner since 1995. Karen has over 20 years of application development experience. In addition to her experience at Turner, she has worked on the vendor side of application development. Karen began her career as a developer for McDonald Douglas Aircraft Company writing assembly language for the F15E.

Ms. Painter holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University.