Karen Gilmer Pauciello

Karen A. Gilmer-Pauciello is Executive Vice President, CFO, and Treasurer of Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY). PHLY states that she joined the company in 2005 as Vice President & Controller and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2009. In her current role, she is responsible for financial and tax accounting and reporting, corporate budgeting and planning, treasury activities, and liaison work with the company’s external investment advisors and auditors.

Before PHLY, Gilmer-Pauciello spent seven years as Vice President & Controller of Admiral Insurance Company. Earlier in her career, she held financial management roles at several insurers and began as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Philadelphia in 1988.

She holds a B.S. in Accounting and an M.B.A. with a finance concentration from La Salle University in Philadelphia. PHLY also identifies her as a Certified Public Accountant in Pennsylvania and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She also serves as Executive Vice President, CFO, and Treasurer of Tokio Marine North America, PHLY’s parent company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokio Marine Holdings.

• I found no public source verifying Karen A. Gilmer-Pauciello as an angel investor, seed investor, venture investor, or startup portfolio investor.
• Her verified investment-related function is corporate treasury and liaison work with PHLY’s external investment advisors and auditors, not direct startup investing.
• Any founder outreach should treat her as a senior insurance finance executive, not as a publicly active angel investor, unless the founder has private confirmation of her angel activity.
• Her professional context suggests relevance for insurance, specialty insurance, financial reporting, treasury, risk, and corporate finance topics.