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Grow Your Company Value

Increase Gross Margins with Hyper-Targeted Pricing Strategy

Double Sales in Two Years with Scalable Management Systems

Prepare Your Company for Sale to Private Equity or Strategic Buyers

Karl Maier provides strategic and financial guidance to companies in the Industrial / Energy Supply Chain to reach your goals more quickly

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Grow Your Vision!

Knowing you have exceptional pricing strategies, management processes, financial forecasts and a high quality plan for reaching your financial goals bring piece of mind to grow with confidence.

Or Wonder What Hit You?

A Strategic CFO brings the ability to look into the future and see many possibilities which most managers never consider. Are you risking missing profits and hitting surprises that cause many businesses to stall or even fail?

Karl's Deep Experience Guides Future Growth

7X Sales in Four Years

Karl was able manage the financing of a rapidly growing company operating on three continents and never run out of cash. Over half of all bankruptcies happen within one year of record sales.

Fix a Broken Foundation

Karl guided a business from a micromanagement approach to scalable management and re-start growth. The owner found a better work-life balance and lost 30 pounds.

Major Acquisitions

Karl has done projections and slide decks for mergers and acquisitions from both the buy side and sell side including private equity transactions as large as $200M of enterprise value.

30% More Profits

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Impossible Turnaround

Both attorneys and the bankruptcy judge said the company was too small to get through a Chapter 11 turnaround. Karl saved a $5M company from liquidation and a family from ruin.

5X in Three Years

Karl was able to put systems in place to track the inventory of a rapidly growing distribution company which convinced the bank to increase the loan and allow the company to keep growing.

Double Sales in 2 Years

Sales were stuck at the same level for three years before Karl set up new management and financial processes. These changes allowed the company to get more funding and double sales.

Karl Provides Strategic Guidance for Faster Growth and More Profits

A CFO can operate at several levels:

Strategic Value - Guides management to a new level of success.
Decision Support - Uses expertise for better management decisions.
Compliance - Provides reporting and controls to keep the business going.

Karl delivers value through strategy and decision support.
He partners with controllers and bookkeepers to provide compliance services.

Karl Maier

Karl Maier has found new profits and financing for business including private equity backed and family owned businesses ranging up to hundreds of million in sales.

He has guided lower middle market companies through rapid growth, turnarounds and financial restructuring.

Over the course of his career, Karl has:

Full-time CFO for two rapidly growing companies
Decades of experience profitably growing companies
Founded a Business Intelligence (BI) company
Started career at EY Consulting; CPA for 30 years
MBA and his B.A. in Economics from Rice University

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George Walden, Investment Banker, CFA

“Karl quickly evaluated my client and offered a solution so I could successfully sell the company."

Greg Ward, Founder,
Latiker Capital Partners

"Karl added value by bringing different perspectives to the deal structure and investor pitches."

Bill Bragman, Owner, YakGear

“You just saved our company more this afternoon than your fees for the whole year.”

Karl Transforms Your Value

Pricing strategy and profit improvement at the transaction level
Performance tracking and incentives tied to efficient use of capital
Management systems and processes to enable safe, rapid sales growth
Fundraising, acquisition guidance and preparing for sale of business

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Diego Ramirez, Owner, Stroke Scan Plus

"Abunden helped fix a broken foundation that was preventing growth or the sale of the business."

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