Karen R. Drexler, MBA
Board of Directors, Compensation Committee Resmed (NYSE: RSMD)

Karen Drexler serves as an independent director for ResMed, a NYSE-listed and market leading company in the disordered breathing space. ResMed is also a leader in the digital health arena, with millions of connected devices capturing sleep and other data every night. Ms. Drexler is also on the board of Tivic Health, a commercial stage neuromodulation company company initially targeting relief of sinus pain and pressure, and VIDA, an AI lung imaging company. She has served on numerous other public and private boards and on compensation (also chairing), audit and nominating and governance committees. She is a member of Women Corporate Directors, National Association of Corporate Directors and Stanford Women on Boards. Ms. Drexler was named one of the Most Influential Directors by Women’s Inc. Magazine in 2018.

Ms. Drexler has extensive operational and entrepreneurial experience. She founded and ran Amira Medical until its sale to Roche Diabetes Care. She managed a variety of functions at LifeScan, a pioneer in home blood glucose monitoring, and executed the sale of the Company to Johnson and Johnson. Recently, she was CEO of Sandstone Diagnostics, a life science tools company focused on increasing access to diagnostic testing. An inventor on 11 issued patents, she was also named Female Entrepreneur of the Year by the Stevie Awards, 2013, and Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year by Silicon Valley Women’s Fund, 2002.

Ms. Drexler is active in Astia (www.astia.com) and Springboard (www.sb.co), nonprofit organizations that support female entrepreneurs. She is a founding member of Astia Angels and an active member of the Life Science and Women’s Health Councils for Springboard. She guest lectures at Stanford courses in medical device design and mobile health and provides team support and mentoring for the Stanford Biodesign Fellowship and StartX, the off campus Stanford accelerator.

Karen is a native of New Jersey, and received her M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton University. She and her husband Andy, a fellow Stanford M.B.A., reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.