Kari Watson is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at MacDougall and has helped to grow and manage the agency since 2002. Kari continues to take an active role with MacDougall’s clients providing senior counsel regarding corporate branding and positioning, messaging and media strategy, corporate communications, issues management and crisis communications. Kari is also MacDougall’s go-to person for publication planning and scientific communications. She loves helping to launch new companies and supporting them as they advance their programs and grow their businesses. Prior to joining MacDougall, Kari provided counsel to biotech clients in the corporate communications practice at Feinstein Kean Healthcare, where she worked for more than four years, rising through the ranks from Coordinator to Director. Kari graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor’s degree in art history and coursework concentrated in pre-medical studies.