Karen Spencer is responsible for the financial oversight of the Seahawks and First & Goal Inc. She is charged with establishing budgets, forecasting, and managing cash flow. She also has direct responsibility for the teams' financial reporting and treasury function. In addition, Spencer oversees the technology and Virginia Mason Athletic Center facilities departments. Spencer represents the club at NFL owners' meetings alongside Chair Jody Allen, Vice Chair Bert Kolde, and President Chuck Arnold. She serves as treasurer of the Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation. Spencer has been with the team 34 seasons and originally joined the Seahawks in 1991 as a staff accountant before she was promoted to her current position in May 2009. In 1990, Spencer was loaned to the Seahawks from the public accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Company to assist in the Seahawks accounting department before being hired full time the following year. Promoted to controller in 1997, Spencer was then promoted to Finance Director of the Seahawks in 2003 and added the same responsibility for First & Goal Inc., in 2005. She was selected to attend the Inaugural Stanford Executive Education NFL Program for Managers in 2003. In 2015, Spencer was named one of Sports Business Journal's Game Changers, women who are recognized for making their mark in the Sports Industry. In 2018 Spencer was recognized as one of the Puget Sound Business Journal's CFOs of the Year. Spencer grew up in the North Seattle area before moving overseas where she lived in Tehran, Iran, from 1974-78. She returned to the states and graduated from Seattle's Nathan Hale High School at the age of 16 and went on to earn a B.A. in Accounting from Seattle University. She lives in Maple Valley, Wash., along the Cedar River with her husband Phil, and their dogs.
