Karl Schoene is an international public company divisional GM and private company CEO with primary experience in B-to-B markets and process manufacturing industries including chemicals and renewable energy. He also serves at board-level and in advisory board roles to several start-ups in diverse industries, including, next to specialty chemicals, pharma and medical devices.

Karl’s focus has been leading businesses in transition with an urgent mandate for strategic renewal, operational improvement, pricing and margin management, and post-M&A integration. He has also led a variety of technology roll-out and commercialization efforts in markets as diverse as agrochemicals, electronic materials, and synthetic lubricants. In privately held, early-stage companies, he has filled both advisory and board-level roles as well as operational roles including as CEO and COO. In these assignments he has led substantial new financing, including placement of both debt and equity, as well as corporate restructuring including M&A transactions on both buy and sell side.

Karl’s experience includes extensive international work particularly across Europe and Asia, as well as a variety of projects in the Middle East, Africa, and South America.

Karl earned both his B.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Virginia, and completed various post-graduate courses in Executive Development, Engineering Management, and Marketing through Louisiana State University and Columbia University, during his career with Ethyl Corporation, Albemarle, Amoco, Witco, Crompton, and Akzo Nobel.