Liquidity and turnaround
13-week cash forecasting, working capital, scenario design, operating actions, stakeholder cadence, and lender credibility.
CFO profile
From financial truth to operating action.
Karl has built companies and finance functions across construction, AEC, broadband, multi-state infrastructure, services, and technology. His work spans accounting and close integrity, FP&A, liquidity, treasury, working capital, job cost and WIP, lender and investor communication, capital planning, finance transformation, and executive decision support.
His method begins with the economics. Benchmark performance, isolate the anomaly, and trace it through the operating model, incentives, systems, and decisions behind the numbers. The objective is not more reporting; it is a more reliable basis for action.
At Macadam Floor & Design, Karl built the business and its finance and operating systems from a standing start to more than $30M in annual recurring revenue. At Broadband Development Group, he led finance-function and operating-discipline work in a growth-oriented construction and broadband environment. He now brings that operator context to KSIG engagements.
Selected capability
FP&A and value creation
Driver-based planning, margin and capacity economics, KPI design, accountability, and plan-versus-actual learning.
Capital and transactions
Capital planning, lender and investor support, diligence readiness, ownership transition, and decision materials.
Finance-function buildout
Close, controls, roles, reporting, systems, policy, data ownership, and management cadence.
Technology finance
Build-vs-buy analysis, system ROI, total cost of ownership, cost allocation, internal recharge, and finance-technology integration.
Legal and commercial fluency
Contract economics, risk framing, negotiation support, issue assessment, and disciplined coordination of specialized outside counsel. KSIG is not a law firm.
Technology and systems
Control, adoption, and economics belong together.
Karl leads finance-system, AI-workflow, automation, and technology-governance work directly where appropriate. He evaluates security and customization tradeoffs, permissions, auditability, integration, human review, adoption, and the permanent operating cost created by technical choices.
Through BlackBoxx.ai, he architects and pressure-tests governed agentic workflows and applied AI systems. The work informs KSIG engagements without turning an executive-finance relationship into a technology sale.
Credentials and affiliations
Continuing depth.
Karl is completing MIT Sloan Executive Education coursework toward the Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation & Technology and is a CMA Candidate. Selected affiliations include the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, Fast Company Executive Board, Fiber Broadband Association working groups, Association for Corporate Growth, Association for Financial Professionals, and American Bar Association business-law sections.
Membership in the American Bar Association reflects commercial and governance interest and does not imply attorney licensure.
MIT Sloan Executive EducationCMA CandidateFinance TransformationTechnology Finance
Selected insights