Karen Kreuzkamp is OpenSea’s Senior Director, Regulatory and Compliance and is based in San Francisco. She manages the company’s responses to regulatory investigations and inquiries, oversees the compliance program, and supervises the law enforcement response team.

Karen joined OpenSea from the U.S. Department of Justice, where she most recently served as a Supervisory Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. In this role, Karen supervised large, high-profile investigations and trials, including racketeering, murder, money laundering, extortion, human trafficking, wire fraud, health care fraud, narcotics conspiracies and trafficking, and various firearms offenses. As a line AUSA, Karen investigated and prosecuted a variety of cases involving members of the most violent criminal organizations in Northern California. Prior to serving as a federal prosecutor, Karen served as a Senior Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.

Karen was an associate at two international law firms, Morrison & Foerster and King & Spalding, where her practice focused on government and internal investigations. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jule E. Carnes of the Northern District of Georgia. Karen earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law and her Bachelor of Acts, with highest honors, from Emory University.