TransUnion has hired Karen Krause as Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Communications Officer, effective June 1. Karen brings deep strategy and corporate development expertise in financial services with extensive experience in growing businesses through acquisitions and transforming operations to grow capabilities globally. She will be responsible for leading TransUnion's Global Strategy, Communications and Branding functions, with a focus on enabling, facilitating and monitoring transformation across global platforms and products to achieve vision and strategy. She will partner with Finance and the Business to support growth in relation to future M&A priorities.

Krause joins TransUnion from JPMorgan Chase, where she served most recently as Global Head of Product Enablement & Delivery, Integrated Payments Product Group. For the past seven years, she has held a variety of transformation leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase in Wholesale Payments and Corporate Strategy. She previously worked in various strategy and corporate development roles at S&P Global, Goldman Sachs, TCR Private Equity and McKinsey.

Karen earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated Summa Cum Laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.