Quick intro
Hi, I’m Karen.
I'm a B2B SaaS executive with 25 years of experience running product, operations, and strategy inside software companies, from founder-led start-ups to a publicly listed global enterprise. I've held full P&L ownership, took over CEO responsibilities during a leadership transition, led post-merger integrations, driven SaaS transformations, and built product and operational functions from the ground up.
Today I work as a Fractional CPO/COO and strategic advisor, bringing that executive experience directly to companies navigating complexity, growth, or change.
What I do is deliberately broader than classic product management. I work across the whole operating system: product strategy and portfolio, business operations and how the organisation runs, go-to-market alignment, and the commercial decisions that underpin it all.
How I help
Most B2B SaaS companies don't have a product problem. They have a coherence problem - product, sales, GTM, and customer success are each doing their job, but not as one system. Value leaks between functions, growth slows, and everyone is busy but nothing compounds.
I work at the intersection of product strategy, business operations, and commercial execution, helping leadership teams design and run the whole system, not just fix individual parts.
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Post-acquisition integration & portfolio consolidation
You've grown through acquisitions and now have multiple products, brands, or technology stacks that need to become a coherent whole.
I help you decide what stays, what goes, what gets built, bought, or partnered for and how to structure the business to deliver on that.
Who I work with: CEOs, founders, investors, portfolio companies, and boards of B2B SaaS companies - typically €5m–€200m ARR.
Why work with me
Most fractional product support focuses on the product team itself - roadmaps, prioritisation, discovery. That's valuable, but it's not where the biggest leverage usually sits.
My work starts there and goes further: into how the whole business operates around the product. How strategy becomes portfolio decisions. How portfolio decisions drive GTM. How GTM connects to what customer success does, and how that feeds back into product. When those loops work, growth compounds. When they don't, value leaks across every function.
I've spent 25 years inside these systems, not observing from the outside, but holding P&L accountability, leading integrations, sitting in the CEO seat, and making the hard calls. That's what I bring to the companies I work with.
Salomie, Director PM
"Karen is a creative and detail-oriented leader with a knack for problem-solving. She is adept at understanding the needs of customers and stakeholders and is able to think strategically and develop innovative solutions to the most complex problems."
Gerfried, CTPO
"Karen is an exceptional product leader with the rare combination of a product mindset and deep understanding for technology. Her ability to manage complex portfolios enabled transparent roadmaps, kept pressure from the engineering teams, and created room to innovate."
Todd, CEO
"Karen is an well organized and thoughtful Product leader. She regularly challenges the status quo and proposes the right way forward when the group is looking for a direction. She championed business model changes and then delivered on the hardest part of making that change real."
If your organisation is experiencing the growing pains that come with scaling a software business, I’d be happy to explore how I can help.
Living in Austria, but working with you wherever you are