Charles Goulding, JD, CPA, MBA

Charles Goulding is an Attorney/CPA and President and founder of Energy Tax Savers and R&D Tax Savers, two national tax consulting firms. Previously he was a Managing Director at Cooper Industries, Inc. in Houston, Texas. Before joining Cooper, Mr. Goulding was Vice President of Dover Corporation, an eight billion dollar sales NYSE diversified industrial manufacturer, where he worked for 26 years. Mr. Goulding has a law degree from Brooklyn Law School (Juris Doctor) and an MBA from Adelphi University. His undergraduate degree is from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he was a double major in Political Science and Economics. He spent his junior year abroad at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. Goulding is a former President of the New York Chapter of the Tax Executives Institute and also participated in Pace University's Doctor of Business Administration Program. Mr. Goulding has authored over 250 articles on a wide variety of tax topics for multiple tax and business publications. Mr. Goulding has recently served as the Tax Panelist for a robot webinar focused on the food processing industry. Mr. Goulding has also served as the Co-Chairman of the Taxation of Mergers and Acquisition conferences in Chicago, Houston, New York City, San Francisco and Paris, France. Mr. Goulding successfully litigated in U.S. Tax Court the Dover Corporation case, the first check the box case, and the Pulsar International case on reasonable compensation. He is also the Deputy Mayor of the Village of Oyster Bay Cove, New York.