Karen Bedrosian Coyne

Biography

Mrs. Bedrosian Coyne currently serves as COO of the Bedrosian Trust, where she is responsible for the trust’s day-to-day operations, as well as the operations of companies under control of the trust. She also serves as a director and CFO for the Karisma Foundation, a private charitable foundation focused on serving disadvantaged youth.

Mrs. Bedrosian Coyne served for nine years as a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation starting in 2013. She served as vice chair, development from 2015-2018 and has served on the investment and executive committees. At UCSB, she also served as a member of the Dean’s Cabinet for the Division of Science from 2009 to 2022.

In June 2022, Mrs. Bedrosian Coyne completed her third term on the board of The Blue Ribbon – a women’s organization founded in 1968 by Dorothy Chandler to support the Music Center of Los Angeles. From 2009 to 2017, she served as president of The Founding Associates of The John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation, which provided financial support to The John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation to fund promising Alzheimer’s research.

She also presides on the advisory boards for the Bedrosian Center of Governance and the Public Enterprise at the USC Price School and the school’s Board of Councilors.

After graduating cum laude from UCSB with a double major in biological sciences and linguistics, Mrs. Bedrosian Coyne received a JD from USC. She was admitted to the State Bar in December 1995 and has been a member continuously since.