Karl has more than 20 years’ experience in providing funding to businesses. He started his career at HSBC and spent eight years at the bank, mainly in Commercial Banking. In 2004, Karl moved to South Yorkshire Investment Fund as an Investment Manager before becoming Investment Director for the Business Loan Fund in 2006.

He then undertook a project for Capital for Enterprise (Now the British Business Bank) to accredit new lenders to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme. In 2010 Karl moved to Enterprise Ventures where he worked on both the Finance Yorkshire Fund and the EV SME Loans Fund, providing funding up to £1m to businesses.