Ksenia Karnaukhova is Senior Director of Finance at Handshake, a role she has held since February 2026. She joined Handshake in 2024 as Controller and later served as Controller and Handshake AI Finance Lead, where she scaled a new vertical from $0 to $500M+ ARR by building core finance operations, advanced forecasting, KPI reporting, and SOX-aligned controls. Previously, Ksenia was Controller at Aspire, directing accounting and compliance operations and the development of key SaaS metrics. At Liftoff Mobile, she progressed from Assistant Controller to Director, M&A Accounting and Financial Reporting, building an in-house SEC and technical reporting function and aligning accounting policies across 15+ entities. Earlier, she was International Accounting Manager at MOLOCO and Regional Accounting Manager at Apple in Ireland, leading a distributed team across 12 countries.