Meet the Karbon Leadership Team
With extensive experience in the accounting and software development industries, the team at Karbon is committed to providing innovative tools, sharing knowledge and facilitating connectivity to empower firms to experience practice excellence.
Mary Delaney
Chief Executive OfficerMary is a visionary, customer-obsessed executive with 20+ years of expertise driving hypergrowth, transformations and award-winning company culture across domestic and international B2B software companies. She has an unmatched ability to attract and retain world-class talent and galvanize highly engaging culture based on inclusion, customer focus, and employee ownership.
John Freeman
Co-FounderJohn co-founded Paycycle with Stuart in 2009, and after its acquisition by Xero he moved to the US to lead the engineering team, building online payroll for the US, UK and NZ markets. He has 20 years' experience in software development, systems architecture and building high performing engineering teams.
Ian Vacin
Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships OfficerIan’s experience as VP of Product Marketing at Xero and Intuit allowed him to chat to thousands of accountants over the past decade, understanding what challenges the industry faces, understanding how accountants can improve their productivity and profitability through better workflows and ensuring new products can cater for these needs.
Sara Goepel
Chief Product OfficerSara has been leading product teams for the past 20 years. She was one of Xero’s early employees in 2007, and responsible for teams building sales, support amd operational systems, as well as a global product scalable to millions of customers. Sara has been with Karbon since the start, and has been instrumental in building the Karbon product into what it has become.
Elizabeth Blass
Chief Customer OfficerElizabeth is a dynamic and strategic leader with 15+ years of global leadership experience. She has helped transform companies from early-stage startups to category leaders, consistently exceeded customer satisfaction goals, managed large-scale projects, and harmonised sales and service teams. An advocate for diversity, Elizabeth serves as a mentor to women in tech.
Brett Miller
Chief Financial OfficerBrett started his career in the transaction services and M&A due diligence group with KPMG. Most recently he was CFO of Restaurant365, where he helped grow the business from $7M in revenue to $100M+ and more than 1000 employees. He has extensive experience leading vertical SaaS companies through the scale-up stage, managing funding rounds and product acquisitions.
Shai Haim
Chief Technology OfficerShai is an innovative technologist, excelling in building exceptional global teams. He drives transformative solutions through expertise, vision, and unwavering dedication to developing products customers love. With 20 years of experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Shai masterfully combines theoretical insights with practical execution.
Tim Donohoue
VP of SalesIn his previous life as an accountant, Tim helped a business grow to $7m annual revenue and guided it through its successful IPO. Then, as COO of Advisor, an accounting firm, he turned its first 20 clients to over 120 in only two years. Tim was employee #1 at Karbon and leads our global Sales team.
Lachlan Macindoe
VP of MarketingLachlan leads a global marketing team that is responsible for driving awareness and demand for Karbon and delivering value through world-leading thought leadership. Coming from senior positions in professional service, sport and non-profit industries before joining Karbon in year 1, Lachlan has a proven record of helping businesses grow through results-driven marketing.
Jourdan Pym
VP of People & PlacesJourdan started his career in aviation and has since moved from leading Cabin Crew teams to partnering with leaders to provide sound, contemporary and impactful human resources support. Jourdan ensures an amazing employment experience for all Karbon team members while helping to future-proof the business with the right guidelines, procedures, and policies.
Enabling Accounting Firms Through Technology & Innovation
Karbon is the global leader in practice management software for growth-minded accounting firms.
Karbon the Company
