Avi Karnani

About Avi Karnani

My passion is bringing pretax employee benefits to employees who work on their feet. Frontline hourly workers have changing paychecks—tips, shifts, and hours can change with the weather. They can\'t prefund pretax benefits with a fixed contribution from each paycheck when they don\'t know how much that paycheck is goin to be. Thats why we built Alice—pretax benefits that adjust to how frontline employees spend and work so they can save money without needing a crystal ball. I like to work on, advise, and invest in projects that deliver better services to frontline employees, save time for multi-location employers, or save money for working people. Areas of focus include Fintech, HRtech, pretax employee benefits, and hospitality projects. I believe companies can help people and bring about consistent, positive change—the best ones create measurable results, commercial sustainability, great communities, and rewarding careers.

Experience

1. Partner, Sales and Success

   Alice

   Jan 2015 — Present · New York, NY, US

   At Alice, we are making pretax benefits work for people who work on their feet!Frontline workers keep our cities moving. My partners and I at Alice help those workers keep more of every paycheck with simple, compliant commuter benefits. I lead Sales & Success at Alice—translating complex regulations into a few clicks for operators, and into real dollars for employees.We grow through partnerships with payrolls, accountants, HR consultants, and brokers with white-glove onboarding. My team helps deliver benefits compliance for operators while saving their time and increasing employee engagement and take-home pay.Highlights:• Alice is frontline first: hospitality, QSR, retail, healthcare, education, staffing and other shift-based and or tipped-wage workforces• Fast Compliance in commuter benefit regulated cities and states: NYC, Philadelphia, NJ, Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle, LA, SF Bay Area and more• Frictionless: Alice connects to payroll, easy digital enrollment, employees spend using their own cards or Alice Card• Partner-led growth: word of mouth from our brokers, payroll providers, workforce platforms, accountants, and HR advisors is how we grow. If you run multi-location teams and want benefits your employees actually use, let’s talk.What I do:• Build and scale partnerships with payroll providers and brokers• Stand up clean implementations for restaurants, retail, and other frontline employers• Make compliance painless in regulated commuter-benefit cities• Stay hands-on with customers—from first conversation to ongoing results

Education

• NYU Stern School of Business

  BS, Economics, Finance

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Mergers
• Start-Ups
• Strategic Planning
• Business Strategy
• Leadership
• Product Development
• Business Development
• Management
• Team Building
• Strategy
• Fundraising
• Marketing Strategy
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• Strategic Partnerships
• Product Management
• Venture Capital
• Business Planning
• Product Marketing
• Marketing
• New Business Development