Profile: Don Carloni, CPA MBA

Don is a Silicon Valley financial pro with over 25 years of diversified financial management and consulting experience. He has served in an executive capacity in Fortune 100 firms and a variety of early stage to mid-market companies both domestically and internationally and has been a partner with Tatum LLC, a national executive services firm. He is a California licensed CPA and Certified QuickBooks Advanced ProAdvisor.

His executive roles have included President, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President Finance & Operations, Finance Director and Controller in such notable companies as Sun Microsystems and Motorola.  In a consulting CFO or business consulting capacaity Don has been engaged by over 20 Bay Area companies.

His experience encompasses management of Finance, Operations, HR & IT functions, venture financing, banking relationship building, accounting, systems implementation, business planning, M&A due diligence and internal controls evaluation (aka Sarbanes-Oxley) as well as all areas which are typically the realm of a CFO.

Professional Experience

Venture CFO: President

Tatum LLC: Partner

Anchorline Corporation: Founder/President

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Vice President, Finance & Operations, Sitka Corp.

Director, Corporate Planning

Director of Finance, Intercontinental Operations

Motorola, Inc.

Director, International Finance - Information Systems Group

Corporate Controller: Motorola Information Systems Ltd.

Manager, Internal Audit: Codex Corp.

Nabisco, Inc.: Senior Field Auditor

Wolf & Company, Certified Public Accountants: Senior Auditor

Education, Credentials and Associations

Bachelor of Arts, English, Norwich University

MBA Finance, Babson Graduate School of Management

Certified Public Accountant

Certified QuickBooks Advanced ProAdvisor 

Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

(Former) Director & Treasurer, Almaden Valley Counseling Service, a non-profit community organization

(Former) Director & Treasurer, Preservation Action Council of San Jose, a non-profit historic preservation organization

Director, A. Schmahl Science Workshop, an education oriented non-profit organization