Mr Goldman is the current President of Hillspire, a Family Office, responsible for financial and administrative functions, along with real estate, aviation and maritime activities.
Mr. Goldman is the former chief financial officer of Yahoo!. Mr. Goldman joined Yahoo! in 2012 and throughout his five year tenure was responsible for Yahoo!’s global finance functions including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury and investor relations. Prior to joining Yahoo! Mr. Goldman served as chief financial officer at Fortinet, Inc, a provider of unified threat management solutions, from 2007 to 2012. Mr Goldman also served as chief financial officer of 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 CFO has helped take three companies public. In addition Mr Goldman’s experience includes board director, audit committee chairman and financial advisory roles at more than 40 corporate boards, of which over 10 have gone public while he was a board member.
Mr. Goldman currently serves on the board of directors of NXP Semiconductor, Trinet, RingCentral, Zuora, GoPro, Inc. and the SASB Foundation; and other non-profit boards such as the RFK Human Rights Board. Mr. Goldman was a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University from 2005 to 2013 and was subsequently designated as Emeritus Trustee; and is currently on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board. Mr. Goldman was appointed in January 2015 to a three-year term to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB’s) Standing Advisory Group (SAG). From December 1999 to December 2003, Mr. Goldman served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC).
Ken Goldman’s Background
Hillspire LLC
President
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Hillspire is a family office responsible for administrative and financial functions as well as real estate, aviation and maritime activities.
Ken was responsible for Yahoo!'s global finance functions, including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury and investor relations.
Fortinet aims to deliver broad, integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure, provide top-rated network & content security and secure, access products that share intelligence.
Zuora is the leading Subscription Economy® evangelist. It provides the only SaaS platform that automates all subscription order-to-revenue operations in real-time for any business.
NXP enables secure connections and infrastructure to create a smarter world and to advance solutions that make lives easier and safer. NXP is the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications.
TriNet provides HR expertise tailored to thousands of small and medium-sized businesses throughout a wide range of industries across the United States.
GoPro makes cameras, drones, apps and accessories to help its customers capture life as they live it.
Harvard Business School
Member Californian Research Center Advisory Board
Burlingame, CA, USA
The California Research Center was established in 1997 and enriches the intellectual activities of Harvard Business School faculty and fortifies the connection between the Boston campus and the West Coast.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board was set up in 1973 and is the independent, private-sector, not-for-profit organization, that establishes financial accounting and reporting standards for public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations that follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Gigamon is the market leader in network visibility solutions which is changing the way people see, control and contextualize traffic across physical, virtual and cloud networks.
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, founded in 1968, is led by human rights activist and lawyer Kerry Kennedy and advocates for a more just and peaceful world. Working alongside local activists to ensure lasting positive change in governments and corporations, the RFK team includes leading attorneys, advocates, entrepreneurs and writers united by a commitment to social justice.
