Founder

Ben Khwaja

Fifteen years across public accounting and corporate finance leadership, now focused on putting AI to work inside accounting teams.

Ben has run accounting for PE-backed companies, including leading a 22-person accounting department at a company managing roughly $3 billion in solar assets. He has built closes, consolidations and reporting from the ground up, and spent seven years in audit at CohnReznick before moving to industry.

He has implemented AI across manual-heavy accounting work, including schedules, agreement abstraction and audit data prep, and founded Kestrel to bring that approach to more finance teams.