Karen Walton

Karen, who is based at our Biggleswade office, joined George Hay in November 2018 as a Scanning Clerk; taking care of all our scanning and digital filing.

She is a qualified Electronic Technician and Legal Executive, with a specialisation in contract law, although she confesses that she has not used either of these qualifications in a long time!

Before having children and latterly joining George Hay, Karen worked in Procurement for Europe’s largest Defence Company (or as she puts it, a ‘professional shopper’ for the defence industry; procuring everything from radars to rocket motors).

Whilst there, she worked on the programme to deliver the design, development, manufacture, supply and support of the weapon system for the Royal Navy’s fleet of Type 45 Destroyers.

After taking a break from work to look after her children, Karen is pleased to be back in an office environment and (in her words) ‘working with such a welcoming and friendly group of people’.

Outside of work, Karen enjoys gardening and baking. She also likes to combine the two by growing lots of vegetables in the garden and then finding various recipes to incorporate them into cakes etc.!  We hear her Courgette Chocolate Brownies are particularly good!