Leadership at Craftsman Technical Companies

Karen establishes corporate standards and programs. As CEO, she provides the structural foundation for Craftsman Technical Companies’ growth.

At RosettaNet Standards Management, she was Senior Director of the Program Office, working with the electronic business standards that organizations across the semiconductor industry use to exchange technical information. She was a charter proponent of the OASIS Electronic Procurement Standardization Technical Committee.

Her operating experience spans Texas Instruments; Fujitsu, where she led sales and business operations in the cybersecurity division; and IoT.nxt, a Vodafone company, where she worked on Americas strategy and operations. Across those roles and her standards work, she became an expert in corporate procurement.

Karen holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in computer science from Texas A&M University-Commerce, with minors in accounting and mathematics. She was in the first class of women to graduate with a computer science degree in Texas. She also holds Cornell University certificates in change leadership and business strategy.

Plamen chairs the board and oversees Craftsman’s corporate strategy, capital allocation, and acquisitions.

Plamen was CEO and President of Hanson Building Products North America and the United Kingdom. He previously led Hanson’s North American building-products business, with earlier operating responsibility for marine aggregates and national contracting. After HeidelbergCement acquired Hanson, he led strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and cementitious materials for the combined group, a publicly traded company. He came to Hanson from L.E.K. Consulting, where he worked on building-materials strategy. His experience guides how Craftsman grows and scales.

Plamen holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Jeremy leads Craftsman Technical Companies’ investment and expansion strategy. He finds overlooked technical markets and builds businesses to serve them, combining research, service development, brand positioning, and sales.

His career began in the early 2000s at Universal Music Group. He later ran a company that produced audio and marketing assets for brands including Prada, Celine, Kenzo, and Telfar, and for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and Tate Britain.

Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Science from Baruch College, City University of New York.

He has young-onset Parkinson’s disease and is a participant in a first-in-human gene therapy trial for the disease. He maintains a prominent public profile as an advocate for the Parkinson’s community and for clinical trial participants.