Carol R. Goldberg is President of The AVCAR Group, Ltd., a private investment and consulting firm, which she founded in 1990 with her husband, Avram, after a thirty year career with The Stop & Shop Companies. Prior to founding AVCAR, she was the President and COO of Stop & Shop.
Over the past years, she has served on a number of public boards, such as The Gillette Company, The Putnam Fund Groups, Lotus Development Corporation, Cowles Media, The Bingham Companies (The Courier Journal and Louisville Times), Alere, Inc., America Service Group, and The Stop & Shop Companies.
She is past-Chair of United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (September 2011-June 2012); a member of the Board of Advocates, Tufts University Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service; and a member of the Boards of the Women’s Studies Research Center of Brandeis University and The One Hundred Club. She is a founding member of The Commonwealth Institute, devoted to helping women entrepreneurs grow their businesses. She is a Trustee for Life of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and past-Chair of its Medical Education Committee. She is also retired as a member of the Board of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, as well as the Board of Hebrew College.
Carol Goldberg received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Jackson College in 1955; was graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1969; and, in 1990-1991, she was a Fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, where she collaborated with Dawn-Marie Driscoll on their book, Members of the Club – The Coming of Age of Executive Women.
She is married to Avram J. Goldberg and has a son Joshua, a daughter Deborah, a son-in-law Michael Winter, a grandson, Evan and a granddaughter, Meredith.