President & Chief Operating Officer
Karl is responsible for overseeing the management of Leapfrog’s operations, finance, HR, sales, marketing, account management, and security departments. He focuses on continuing to scale Leapfrog by providing clients with the right people, processes, and policies that achieve highly repeatable and consistent outcomes. He especially appreciates the opportunity to collaborate and bring pieces together, whether internally across Leapfrog teams or externally with our clients and partners.
Previously, Karl was the CEO of IntelliNet Corporation, an MSP he led through a strategic sale to a PE-backed TPM company. Before IntelliNet, Karl worked at IBM for nearly 20 years in various sales and leadership roles and also led Lenovo’s North American Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) practice. His extensive international business experience includes being stationed in Japan to grow regional business and a partner network.
Karl credits his love of technology to James Bond. He grew up watching the OG Sean Connery movies with his dad and followed his fascination with gadgets into his first job at IBM. As his career and the industry have progressed, he’s excelled in managing the complexities and solving new problems that clients face — he suspects winning the coveted “Most Even Tempered” award in sixth grade helped put him on this particular path.
Karl graduated from Miami University with a B.A. in International Studies and gives actively to a variety of charitable causes, joining the Executive Board of Inspiredu in 2026 and currently serving on the Advisory Board for The Trust for Public Land Ohio and on the Board of the West Side Catholic Center.
Outside the Pond
Karl is a proud girl dad, raising 4 daughters who always keep him humble and give him fit checks on the regular. His wife accuses him of still being a teenage boy, and by the looks of his comic art, car and Lego collections, she’s not wrong. He also enjoys playing in his men’s ice hockey league, ALTA pickleball and some golf and tennis with his crew. Karl enjoys being from a big family, and along with his wife’s family counts over 60 first cousins as an extended family.
