Journey and Milestones
Background Information
Experience
Marco Noailles
Treasurer
Originally from northern Minnesota, Marco Noailles graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL with a major in Economics.
Originally from northern Minnesota, Marco Noailles graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, with a major in Economics. Few people know that Marco helped establish a number of food cooperatives in Wisconsin, and that over the years he has lived on various goat farms throughout the midwest and northwestern United States. Marco met Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972 and soon thereafter moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he helped with the start-up of Naropa Institute. He attended the 1975 Vajradhatu Seminary, where the second of his three sons was born.
He moved to Karme Choling in Vermont in the early 1980s, where he became the business manager and eventually the controller. Later he moved back to Chicago and worked at a CPA firm for ten years, eventually becoming a CPA. He met Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche at the cremation of Trungpa Rinpoche in 1987 and became a dedicated student of Rinpoche’s in 1992. Marco now lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Penny and their son Mila. He is also a devoted grandpa to his granddaughter, Lucy.
Marco is an accountant in the National Payroll Services division of the Financial Services Organization of Kaiser Permanente, a nonprofit health care organization with 165,000 employees.
In addition to his role as Treasurer, Marco advises the finance team at 84000.