Karl Brier is a 30-year veteran of the southern California banking and finance community.  A senior vice president, Karl joined PNC Business Credit over five years ago.  He provides both asset-based and cash-flow senior debt to middle market companies.  Clients include public, private equity-owned and family-owned companies.  Financing is provided for multiple purposes, including M&A, turnarounds, recapitalizations and restructurings

Prior to joining PNC, Karl served as both an originator and a manager for JPMorgan Chase’s middle market commercial bank.  He helped launched the de novo opening of JPMorgan Chase’s commercial banking Los Angeles office in 2009.  Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Karl served at GE Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Union Bank and MUFG. Karl has financed many well-known companies in southern California and the broader western USA.  During his career, Karl facilitated financial transactions in various sectors and structures, including technology and venture/growth finance, financing US subsidiaries of foreign multinationals, turnarounds/bankruptcy, ESOP transactions, channel finance and more. He also served as CFO for two companies, one public and one venture-backed. 

Karl is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Turnaround Management Association.  He earned his B.A. from USC in East Asian Studies and International Relations, and his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.  Karl studied abroad in Tokyo and speaks conversational Japanese.  He lives in Orange County and enjoys skiing with this family.