Our People

The Howard-Sloan-Koller Group (HSK) team is made up of 20 industry professionals, all dedicated to meeting your recruitment and career development needs. Each HSK consultant holds a leadership role within one or several specialty areas, which positions the firm to work with people who truly excel at what they do.

Here are a few of the people who make our business work:

Karen Shnek Lippman Managing Director [email protected]

Karen Shnek Lippman is a Managing Director at The Howard-Sloan-Koller Group where she recruits communications, content and creative professionals (the 3 “C’s” as she calls it) for the media and entertainment industries.

Karen joined HSK in 1999 after close to a decade of working in communications roles in both New York City and Miami for some of the nation’s leading Public Relations agencies - including DeVries, Edelman and Rubin, Barney & Birger - and a stint as the Public Relations Director for the country’s highest-grossing and most famous restaurant, Tavern on the Green. A self-professed lover of all things edible, Karen founded her own PR “boutique” in Miami Beach in the ‘90s, representing a variety of the area’s top rising star chefs and luxury hotels and restaurants. She has also written about food and travel for some of the nation’s leading lifestyle glossies including Food Arts, Gotham and Hamptons and was an entertainment writer for The Badger Herald.

Karen graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a B.A. in Journalism.