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Life After HP: Lew Karabatsos
Full Circle
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Lew Karabatsos |
When Lew Karabatsos decided to take the early retirement package offered to HP employees in 2005, he thought he might try something different. As director of Global Philanthropy at HP, Lew had a passion for giving and community outreach. His first foray after retirement was at CreateHope, a Washington-based software company that provides companies with technology solutions for employee engagement programs.
But, at the end of May, his life came full circle when he accepted a new position as senior director for Corporate Philanthropy at Monster Worldwide Inc., located in the Mill in Maynard, Mass., the birthplace of Digital Equipment Corporation and the place where his own career started. In this position, Karabatsos is responsible for developing, implementing and managing the company's global philanthropic investments.
"I can't believe it," he said. "I am working for a great company, doing what I love. What more can I ask for?" And, I am back where I started my corporate career so many years ago. It just goes to show you never know where life will take you!"
In addition to his Monster.com job, Karabatsos continues to teach a graduate-level fundraising management course at Boston University.
He and his wife Susan, also an HP alumna, live in Lowell and spend summers in Rye Beach, N.H. The couple has two sons, Evan, an incoming junior at Boston University and Todd, a graduate of St. Anselm College who is currently the accounts receivable manager for Progressive Gourmet.
Karabatsos has an undergraduate degree in Secondary Education and Social Studies and a Master's Degree in Communications. He has also authored or co-edited several books and articles including Rye and Rye Beach, N.H.: A Postcard History, Comunidade: The Portuguese Community of Lowell: 1905-1930 and Fixed in Time: Photographs of Lowell: 1860-1940. He has served as director of the Lowell Museum, as an overseer at the Boston Museum of Science, treasurer and past president of the Lowell Historical Society, and past president of the Whistler Museum/Lowell Art Association.
24 July 2008
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