Karen A. Soltero

Karen E.
Soltero has served as the Marketing Vice-President for SRI since 2001.
She concurrently was the Director of Marketing/Investor & Public Relations for Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. from September, 2004 through February 2007.
Previously, she was the Shareholder Relations Manager and had been working for company since June, 2003.
She handled marketing, public relations and investor support from the Los Angeles office.
Karen has been the Executive Director of the WendyArts Foundation, a charity dedicated to supporting the efforts of new artists, since 2001.
Prior to joining Zion, Karen worked as a Senior Sales Analyst for the Walt Disney Company, and as the Director of Product Marketing for Pognet.com, an online gift sales and reminder service company.
She also worked as writer and editor for the quarterly newsletter for KidNet Foundation, a non-profit children's organization.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Theater from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she graduated Cum Laude and was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
Karen also holds a Master's Degree in Business, with an emphasis on Marketing and Strategy, from the Peter F.
Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.