Ken
Ken Goldman
Former President, Hillspire

Mr Goldmanis the former President of Hillspire, a family office management company,responsible for financial and administrative functions, along with real estate,aviation and maritime activities.

Mr. Goldman is the former chief financial officer of Yahoo!, Inc responsible for Yahoo!'s global finance functionsincluding financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury andinvestor relations since October 2012. Prior to that, Mr. Goldman servedas senior vice president, finance and administration, and chief financialofficer of Fortinet, Inc, a provider of unified threat management solutions,from September 2007 to September 2012. From November 2006 to August 2007,Mr. Goldman served as executive vice president and chief financial officerof Dexterra, Inc. From August 2000 until March 2006, Mr. Goldman served assenior vice president, finance and administration, and chief financial officerof Siebel Systems, Inc. During a professional career spanning over forty years, Mr.Goldman has served as CFO of multiple public and private companies and as CFOhas helped take three companies public. Inaddition Mr. Goldman's experience includes board director, audit committeechairman and financial advisory roles at more than 40 corporate boards, ofwhich over 10 have gone public while he was a board member.  Mr. Goldman also currentlyserves on the board of directors of NXP Semiconductor, Trinet, RingCentral,Zuora, GoPro, Inc. and the SASB Foundation; and other non-profit boards such asLucile Packard Children's Hospital Foundation Board and the RFK Human RightsBoard.

 

In 2017, theJewish Heritage Commission of the United States presented the Kind David Awardto Mr. Goldman recognizing his contributions to American society and Jewishheritage as a leader of exceptional impact. Mr. Goldman was a member ofthe Board of Trustees of Cornell University from 2005 to 2013 and was subsequentlydesignated as Emeritus Trustee; and is currently on the Harvard Business SchoolCalifornia Research Center Advisory Board. Mr. Goldman was appointed in January 2015 to a three-year term to thePublic Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB's) Standing Advisory Group(SAG), an organization that provides advice on the need to formulate newaccounting standards or change existing standards. He was a member of theTreasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession over the years2007-2008, a public committee that made recommendations to encourage a moresustainable auditing profession. From December 1999 to December 2003, Mr. Goldmanserved on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC). 

Mr. Goldman holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from CornellUniversity and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

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