Kenneth Goldman Biography

Mr. Kenneth A. Goldman also known as Ken has been the Chief Financial Officer for Yahoo! Inc since October 22 2012. Mr. Goldman is responsible for Yahoo!’s global finance functions including financial planning and analysis controllership tax treasury and investor relations. He is Venture Partner of The Westly Group. He serves as a Strategic Advisor at Rafter Inc. He is a Strategic Partner at Cheyenne Partners. Mr. Goldman serves as an Advisor of Boardwalktech Inc. He served as a Vice President at Fortinet Inc. since September 25 2007 and also served as its Principal Accounting Officer. He served as a Senior Advisor at Greenhill & Co. Inc. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance & Administration at Siebel Systems Inc. from August 2000 to January 2006 and also served as its Principal Accounting Officer since August 2000 until March 2006. Mr. Goldman served as the Chief Financial Officer of Fortinet Inc. from September 2007 to October 2012. He also served at Excite Inc. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Dexterra Inc from December 2006 to August 2007. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance/Executive Vice President of Excite@Home from July 1996 to July 2000. From 1992 to 1996 he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance at Sybase Inc. Mr. Goldman was involved in taking public both VLSI Technology in 1983 and Excite@Home Network in 1997 as the Chief Financial Officer. From 1989 to July 1992 he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance & Administration at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. From 1983 to 1989 he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President at VLSI Technology Inc. Mr. Goldman has been an Independent Director of GoPro Inc. since December 2013 Actian Corporation since February 25 2008 Independent Director of TriNet Group Inc since August 2009 OneWorld Systems Inc. since July 1996 Moxie Software Inc since January 2009 and Vormetric Inc since September 12 2006. He has been a Non-Executive Director of NXP Semiconductors NV and NXP B.V. since August 6 2010 and a Director at Infinera Inc. since February 2005. He serves as a Director of Starent Networks LLC since February 2 2006 AlienVault Inc Sterna Technologies Ltd. Ingres Corporation XOJET Inc. Fortify Software Inc and SightSpeed Inc. He serves as an Independent Director of Gigamon Systems LLC. He serves as a Director of Yahoo! Japan and Skybox Imaging Inc. He has been a Director at Yahoo Japan Corporation since June 20 2013. He serves as a Trustee at Menlo School. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Board at Sportgenic Inc. and Cirrascale Corporation. He serves as a Member of Business Advisory Council of Illuminate Ventures. He served as a Director of Alterego Networks ArcSight Inc. Dexterra Inc. Qualix Group Shutterfly Inc. and Sales.com Inc. He served as a Director of Gigamon Inc. (formerly Gigamon LLC) from January 2011 to June 11 2015. Mr. Goldman served on the Board of several private companies. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Avast Software s.r.o. He served as a Director of Legato Systems Inc. since July 2000. He served as a Director of Infinera Corporation from February 2005 to May 15 2014. He served as an Independent Director of Bigband Networks Inc. since April 18 2006 and Leadis Technology Inc. from January 2004 to September 2008. He served as a Director of Hoana Medical Inc. and Fortinet Inc. Mr. Goldman served as a Director of Juniper Networks Inc. from September 2003 to January 2008 Blaze Advisor since December 1999 Hyperion Solutions Corp. from June 2000 to February 27 2003 and Kintana Inc since July 2000. He served as a Director of at Ambarella Inc. since September 2009. He served as a Director and a Member of Advisory Board of SeeCommerce. Mr. Goldman served as a Member of the Advisory Board at Everypath Inc. He served as a Member of Advisory Board at Osprey Ventures L.P. and EchoSign Inc. He served as a Member of Supervisory Board at Cirrascale Corporation. He served as a Member of the NASDAQ's Issuer Affairs. He was President of The Financial Executive Institute Santa Clara Chapter. He is a Member of The Financial Executive Institute Santa Clara Chapter. He is a Trustee Emeritus of Cornell University. He is a Member of Advisory Board for the Harvard Business School California Research Center. He served on the board of the American Electronic Association. He was a Trustee at Cornell University since July 2004. He was an Advisory Council Member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Advisory Council from 2000 to 2004. He is a Member of the FEI Committee for Financial and Information Technology. Mr. Goldman earned an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business in 1974 and a BA Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1971.

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