Katherine began her career as an analyst and portfolio manager with a major Canadian investment bank. She transitioned to investigative journalism working as an award winning producer and director of the CBC prime time documentary series Man Alive. With the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Katherine raised a fund for investment in Eastern Europe and in 1990 founded Allied Capital Corporation to provide specialized corporate finance services to private and public growth companies in North America. Allied provides corporate finance services to established companies in a range of sectors including technology, fintech, cleantech, clean energy infrastructure, healthcare, energy services, up stream and midstream oil and gas, select mining situations and secondary transactions.  Katherine serves on the board and investment committee of a Canadian foundation, the Advisory Board of the McGill Library and the Board of SoundStreams Canada. Katherine is a member of the Order of St. Lazarus, an international charity focused on palliative care. Her other interests include skiing, canoeing, hiking, gardening and managing a historic mill producing hydro power.