Karen Llana

Karen Sta. Maria – Llana is the Global Communications Shared Services Lead of Hitachi Energy. She took up this role in December 2020. Prior to taking up this position, she held leadership roles for brands such as ABB Power Grids, AFRY, Concentrix, Megaworld, China Bank and Manila Water. She was also a writer for ABS-CBN’s Starstudio Magazine. She is an integrated communications and change leader with expertise on strategic employee engagement, mergers & acquisitions communications, architecture of and building high-performing communications teams. She finished her university studies from the University of the Philippines and took Master of Arts in Communications from Ateneo de Manila University.