Bart Kalsu has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July 2025, with extensive experience partnering with private equity sponsors as both a Chief Financial Officer and an Operating Partner with K1 focused on value creation and scale. He previously served as Chief Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at SolarWinds, Inc. Bart worked at SolarWinds for 17 years as the company grew from $100M to $1B in revenue and led an initial public offering as well as a take private transaction. Prior to SolarWinds, he worked for JPMorgan Chase Bank as Vice President, Commercial Banking, from June 2005 until August 2007. From April 2002 until June 2005, Mr. Kalsu worked for Red Hat, Inc. as Senior Director of Finance. Bart has served on the board of directors of EP Energy Corporation (NYSE: EPE) and Athlon Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHL). He holds a B.S. in Accounting from Oklahoma State University.
