Karl Gemperli

Karl Gemperli is a Co-Founder, ​Managing Director, and General Partner at Leawood Venture Capital, Karl Gemperli is a seasoned public company CEO and Board Member who has generated significant long-term shareholder value through visionary technical leadership, strategic business development, and disciplined operations management. He is the Founder and CEO of Elecsys Corporation, a pioneer of industrial wireless, M2M, IoT, and cloud data management solutions that was acquired by Lindsay Corporation (NYSE: LNN) in 2015. Previously President of DCI, Inc., Vice President of Airport Systems International, and Director of Manufacturing at Goodrich Aerospace. Member of the Castor Ventures Fund Investment Committee. He quintupled revenue and increased Elecsys (NASDAQ: ESYS) market cap more than 3,500%, named 3 times to Fortune's "Small Business 100" list of fastest growing public companies, names to Forbes "America's Best Small Companies" in 2014, and spearheaded over a dozen business and technology acquisitions in the US and Europe. He holds a B.S. from MIT and M.Eng. from Boston University.