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Ken Goldman

Former President, Hillspire; Former CFO, Yahoo!

Mr. Goldman is the former President of Hillspire, a family office management company responsible for financial and administrative functions and real estate, aviation, and maritime activities. Prior to that, Mr. Goldman was the former chief financial officer of Yahoo!, Inc., responsible for Yahoo! ‘s global finance functions, including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury, and investor relations, since October 2012. Mr. Goldman served as senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer of Fortinet, Inc., a provider of unified threat management solutions, from September 2007 to September 2012. From August 2000 until March 2006, Mr. Goldman served as senior vice president of finance and administration and 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 including VLSI, Excite@Home, and Fortinet.

In addition, Mr. Goldman’s experience includes board director, audit committee chairman, and financial advisory roles at over 40 corporate boards, of which over ten have gone public while he was a board member. Mr. Goldman also currently serves on the board of directors of public companies, including Fortinet, RingCentral, Zuora, and GoPro, Inc., private boards including Wealthfront, Inxeption, and Pattern Computer, where he also serves as a consulting CFO, and other non-profit boards such as the RFK Human Rights Board and formerly Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Foundation 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 also a member of Cornell University Bowers CIS Advisory Council. Mr. Goldman is currently on the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB’s) Investor Advisor Group (IAG) Committee. He was appointed in January 2015 to a three-year term to the PCAOB’s Standing Advisory Group (SAG), and was a member of the Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession over the years 2007-2008. He also served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), VRF and IFRS. Mr. Goldman is currently on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board, Mr. Goldman is currently on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board and a Member of the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers, effective 2021.

Mr. Goldman holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Ken enjoys skiing, windsurfing, kiteboarding, and golf in his spare time