William Karlson Email & Phone Number

Manassas, Va

Co-Founder and CEO of a new craft distillery in Manassas, VA. We are making and selling various distilled spirits, including bourbon, rye whiskey, wheated whiskey, and gin. Our brown spirits have the brand name of Bare Knuckle. Our gins go by the name Battle Standard 142. My business partner, John O'Mara, and I opened our doors to the public in mid-September 2015. Our craft distillery is located at 10381 Central Park Drive, Suite 105, Manassas, VA 20110. We have a 12,000 sf space which includes a 4,000 sf area for barrel storage, a distilling plant featuring a 550-gallon copper pot/hybrid still and a 30-foot continuous column still, and a visitors center for guided tours, tastings, product and merchandise sales, and special events. We also have a 15,000 sf remote barrel storage warehouse which can store 4,500 53-gallon barrels. KO Distilling is both a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant and a unique travel/tourism destination.

Served as a Board of Directors member for Stanley, Inc. (NYSE: SXE) until Stanley was acquired by CGI in 2010.

Served as a Senior Vice President for Stanley, Inc., a 5,000 employee government contracting firm which provided information technology, program management, systems analysis and business process outsourcing services to the U.S. military and other Federal Government agencies.

M.S., Software Systems Engineering

B.S., Marine Engineering/Marine Transportation

Activities and Societies: Varsity Soccer, LacrosseKPS