Meet our Foundation Board
Mark Tarini
Investment Committee Chair
Mark Tarini is a partner at Arclight Capital Partners, a private-equity firm specializing in investments in the North American energy infrastructure. He also is a member of the firm’s investment-valuation committees. Tarini brings strengths in corporate governance, donor development, investment management and student outreach to the foundation board. He attended Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and has more than 30 years of energy-finance and private-equity experience. Formerly, he was the chief financial officer of two private investment funds: EP Power Finance and Energy Investors Funds Group.
He began his career as a certified public accountant in the utility and real estate practices of Arthur Andersen & Company. An active community volunteer, Tarini is chairman of the Board of Directors of Read to a Child, a national, nonprofit literacy and mentoring organization. Through Read to a Child’s lunchtime reading program, over 1,800 volunteers from more than 150 corporations nationwide read aloud to 1,400 at-risk elementary school students in greater Boston, Detroit, Hartford, Los Angeles, and Miami. Mark has been a reader at the Tobin Elementary School in Roxbury, Mass., for nine years. He serves on the SCSU Foundation’s investment and development committees.
