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Prior to co-founding KrasnePlows, Barbara Krasne established BK Services Group, LLC, a management consulting firm for nonprofit organizations and privately-held companies. Earlier in her career, Krasne held leadership positions in the advertising, media, education and art worlds, at USA Today International, Publicitas and Artnet.com among others. She has built businesses from the ground up and successfully rescued troubled companies.

A former CEO, Krasne is experienced in all aspects of an enterprise, from marketing and sales to finance and operations, and has provided strategic and operational expertise to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations for over 25 years. She understands technology and has consistently used it to build successful businesses.

Krasne serves on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards, frequently as an officer and member of the executive committee, including Christopher Norman Chocolates. At the Parent-Child Home Program, Krasne established a governance function, recommended a revised committee structure (identified committee goals, roles, and composition), and expanded the leadership pipeline. She served on search committees to hire new executive directors at Inwood House, and Body Positive, a community-based AIDS organization. As co-chair of Governance Matters' board leadership committee, she worked on a five-year research project identifying best practices of highly effective boards. As a board member, Krasne has served on various strategic planning committees, including a merger. She has been appointed to the University of Kansas Marketing Alumni Advisory Council. Krasne was a mentor for the National Social Venture Competition, sponsored by Columbia Business School, the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley, and The Goldman Sachs Foundation, among other professional affiliations.

In 2002, Krasne co-founded the Downtown Business Network, a business development membership organization for business services firms in lower Manhattan. There she developed and executed the operational plan for advisory board, membership, funding and corporate sponsorship programs.

Krasne, who is a long time resident of New York City, earned a BA in Art History and Psychology from the University of Kansas. She received an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the same institution.