Karen Tuleta

Karen joined Morgenthaler in 1995 and has been with MPE Partners since inception. As an MPE Partner, Karen works closely with the Firm’s portfolio companies, often as a board member, to set strategy, manage value creation initiatives, structure financings, and oversee liquidity events. Karen has over 40 years of corporate finance investment experience, having originated, negotiated, and closed more than 60 investments and/or third‐party financing transactions in her career, including financings for platform acquisitions, add‐on acquisitions, restructurings, dividend recapitalizations, refinancings, sale/leaseback transactions, and staple financings for liquidity events.

Karen currently serves as Chairman of 80/20 and as a director of BonaDent and Teel Plastics. She is a former director of Bettcher Industries, DecoArt, dlhBOWLES, Plastic Components, Inc., Trachte, United Pipe & Steel, and Webster Industries.  Karen previously served as a director of Satellite Logistics Group and Avtron Aerospace, Inc., both realized portfolio company investments from Morgenthaler legacy funds.  Karen is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth (“ACG”) and has served as President of ACG Cleveland and as a Global Board member and ACG Global Finance Committee member. Karen is the inaugural recipient of the 2018 ACG Women in Transactions Deal Maker of the Year award, and a past Crain’s Cleveland Business Woman of Note.

Karen was previously with Carnegie Capital Management Company, a Cleveland, Ohio private money management firm, where she concentrated on portfolio management and public company analysis. Before joining Carnegie in 1987, she was a member of the international tax department at Hale and Dorr, a law firm in Boston, Massachusetts.