Ken Goldman

San Francisco, CA, USA

President

Hillspire LLC

Biography

Ken Goldman is the current President of Hillspire, a Family Office responsible for financial and administrative functions, along with real estate, aviation and maritime activities. During a professional career spanning over forty years, Ken has served as CFO of multiple public and private companies, and as CFO has helped take three companies public.

Ken is the former Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo!. He 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!, Ken served as Chief Financial Officer at Fortinet, Inc, a provider of unified threat management solutions, from 2007 to 2012. Ken also served as CFO of Siebel Systems, Inc. In addition, Ken'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.

Currently, Ken is on the Board of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. He also serves on the Board of Directors of NXP Semiconductor, Trinet, RingCentral, Zuora, GoPro, Inc. and the SASB Foundation. He is on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board and, in January 2015, he was appointed to a three-year term to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB’s) Standing Advisory Group (SAG). Ken previously was a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University from 2005 to 2013 and was subsequently designated as Emeritus Trustee.

Ken earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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.

Yahoo! Inc

Chief Financial Officer

Jan 2012 - Jun 2017

San Francisco, CA, USA

Ken was responsible for Yahoo!'s global finance functions, including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury and investor relations.

Fortinet

Chief Financial Officer, Senior VP - Finance & Administration

Sep 2007 - Oct 2012

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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.

Dexterra

Executive Vice President & CFO

Nov 2006 - Aug 2007

Mississauga, CA

Dexterra, formerly part of Carillion Canada, focusses on creating industry-leading facilities management and operation solutions across Canada.

Siebel Systems (Oracle)

Chief Financial Officer, Senior VP - Finance & Administration

2000 - 2006

Redwood City, CA, USA

Siebel Systems, part of Oracle's CX product suite, provides a CRM system to help customers achieve their digital transformation goals.

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Current Non-Executive Positions

RingCentral

Board Member

Belmont, CA, USA

RingCentral is a publicly-traded provider of cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions for businesses.

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

Board Member

San Francisco, CA, USA

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, SASB, connects businesses and investors on the financial impacts of sustainability.

Zuora

Board Member

San Mateo, CA, USA

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 Semiconductors NV

Board Member

Eindhoven, NL

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

Member, Audit Committee

Dublin, CA, USA

TriNet provides HR expertise tailored to thousands of small and medium-sized businesses throughout a wide range of industries across the United States.

GoPro

Board Member

San Mateo, CA, USA

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.

Cornell University

Emeritus Trustee

2005 - 2013

Ithaca, NY, USA

Cornell is an Ivy League research University, privately endowed and a partner of the State University of New York.

Financial Accounting Standards Board

Member Primary Advisory Group

Dec 1999 - Dec 2003

Norwalk, CT, USA

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.

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Previous Non-Executive Positions

Gigamon

Board Member

Santa Clara, CA, USA

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.

U.S. Department of the Treasury

Member Advisory Committee, Auditing Profession

Washington, DC, USA

The Advisory Committee, Auditing Profession is a public committee that made recommendations to encourage a more sustainable auditing profession.

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Philanthropy

RFK / Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Trustee

New York, NY, USA

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.

Ken Goldman’s Education

Harvard Business School

MBA

1972 - 1974

Cornell University

BS Electrical Engineering

1967 - 1971