Karl Tangara, MA, CPA, is MCAC and SCAC Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Resource Center for the Chemically Dependent Inc as its Chief Operating Officer, Karl Romero Tangara was the Chief Financial Executive responsible for finance, accounting, human resource, and office service functions at an international technology company with over 150 staff members and 4 offices worldwide.
Karl has also served as Vice President of Finance at Goldman Sachs, where he was part of the legal entity controllers group focused on entities within the firm’s institutional client services and investing and lending business.
Prior to his role at Goldman Sachs, Karl was a Senior Manager for more than 10 years at Ernst & Young, where his focus was in the financial services industry, providing audit and consulting services to public and non-public life, property & casualty, reinsurance and financial guaranty insurance companies.
Karl earned his Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Virginia as well as a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Business from Pennsylvania State University. He has earned his CPA from the New York Board of Accountancy. He is an Aresty Scholar, awarded by Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania for his commitment to professional development.
Karl also attended numerous international schools in many countries around the world in his younger years including the United Nations International School (UNISK) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tockington Manor, a boarding school near Bristol, England, the American International School (AIS) in Lagos, Nigeria, the American International School in the Philippines, and St. Peter’s Prep in New Jersey, a Jesuit school. His parents worked for UNICEF and UNDP.