Karl works with leaders from across the Novant Health system to provide the information products and services required to deliver remarkable care to the patients and communities we serve. He currently leads Novant Health's Information Management, Cognitive Computing, and Analytics efforts.

Karl has held executive roles in large retail and energy trading companies, and has held pivotal roles in telecommunications, manufacturing, supply chain, insurance, government, banking and finance, and food and beverage.

In these roles, Karl set strategic direction and created alignment to direct structures during the pivot years of these industries, devised and led game-changing initiatives, increased revenue, became an early champion and expert in cloud adoption, personalization through social media data, real-time pricing structures, and extreme automation through machine learning and AI-based algorithms.