Karen Thornton Email Address

Chief Administrative Officer

Frac Tech Services

Strategic growth/M&A/restructuring ● Marketing, Financial, Operational, HR, IT leadership ● Stakeholder management Highly accomplished C-suite leader and Board Director guiding public, private, non-profit, and PE-led entities through expanding and contracting business cycles, organic growth, M&A, IPO, senior leadership, and ownership changes. • Agility expert, leading strategic planning and execution, working with boards, senior leadership, and staff to align financial, operational, human resources, and IT teams with corporate objectives and ensure rapid business scaling and rightsizing in growth and crisis markets, operational continuity, and stabilization during steep downturns. •Business reengineering and IT strategist, driving digital transformation initiatives to modernize and streamline Marketing, Financial, HR and additional back-office operations for agility, including pre- and post- M&A and IPO. •Marketing and internal/external communications leader, for company, employee, and customer stakeholder results through fluctuating business cycles, ownership, and economic change. • Stakeholder engager, serving in Vice Chair and Boards Director roles at community organizations including Tarrant County College Foundation, The American Heart Association of Tarrant County, and Empowering Women Out of Prison. Extended focus beyond corporate activities to meet community needs, leveraging recruitment/nomination/succession planning, and leadership development expertise, to champion health equity, affordable access to education, and social justice initiatives.