Karen Hildenbrand-Allery – Fractional CFO | Co-founder, Margin Maximizers Karen Hildenbrand-Allery is not your traditional CFO... she’s a financial strategist, problem-solver and creator of smarter ways for businesses to succeed. With more than 20 years’ experience across global FMCG, high-growth SMEs and family enterprises, Karen has a reputation for turning complexity into clarity and chaos into control. As Co-Founder of Margin Maximizers, she helps business owners strengthen their commercial foundations, aligning numbers, systems and people to deliver structure, performance and profit. Her straight-talking style, calm leadership and sharp commercial lens have made her the go-to CFO for businesses in transition. Now, as the innovator behind smeGIANT: a world-first AI-driven platform designed to bring CFO-level intelligence to the global SME sector. Karen is redefining what financial leadership looks like. She’s proving that access to clarity, insight and strategy should no longer be a privilege of big business. At Accounting & Business Expo 2026, Karen will share how next-generation intelligence, practical financial structure and decisive leadership are transforming the way business build value, improve margin and scale with confidence while being supported by outsourced commercial finance experts.  Professional Website: https://karenhildenbrandallery.com/