Karen Calloo is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Calloo Consulting Services LLC. Her career spans more than 20 years of solid experience and expertise in building and managing successful accounting and finance functions, including internal controls, accounting processes and policies, financial projections, budgeting, and reporting. She has a track record of leading teams to consistently execute strategies.

Karen was the Chief Financial Officer of the nation’s largest research center focused exclusively on improving the lives and prospects of children and youth. In that leadership role, she managed the strategic growth, financial stability of the organization, and served as a key thought leader on its expansion of fund raising.

She built and maintained the organization’s financial function, and trained and mentored an exceptional team of accounting professionals, to deliver clean external financial audits throughout her tenure. She created and managed the organization’s financial budgets that grew from $10 million in revenue and 80 employees, to $30 million in revenue and over 200 employees. She was a strategic partner with the President, Chief Operations Officer, and the Board of Directors, as the team worked to manage growth, and sustain a motivated workforce.

Karen also led the management of the Information Technology function, where she provided leadership and oversight of a team of Technology experts, ensuring that data was rapidly accessible and secure. Through her leadership and vision, the IT infrastructure of the organization had the capability to pivot to remote work, which proved invaluable during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to her role as Chief Financial Officer, Karen successfully led various accounting departments in multi-million-dollar for-profit companies for 10 years. She directly managed budgets of up to $650 million in revenue, including consolidations of financial statements of up to 45 worldwide subsidiaries. Early in her career, she worked for three years in direct auditing with Arthur Andersen, one of the top six audit firms at that time.

She holds a Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Howard University.