Ford Goodman

VP, North America MDM

Ford Goodman is an accomplished executive and entrepreneur with achievements in executive management, strategic business development and capital formation, marketing, professional services and product development initiatives across enterprise and on-demand software businesses. Mr. Goodman co-founded Cloud9 Analytics (formerly Certive Corporation) in 1999, a SaaS Sales Analytics company with the industry's first truly on-demand analytics platform. He was CEO and co-founder of Relevance Technologies, an Internet technology semantic search startup, which was acquired by Documentum in 1998. From 1992-1995, Mr. Goodman served as CEO of CE Software, a publicly traded software company best known for QuickMail, the leading email solution for the Macintosh. Before joining CE Software, he worked with Informix Software from 1988-1992, where as Vice President of America's Sales he managed hundreds of employees and was responsible for more than $150 million in revenue. He began his career with Arthur Andersen Consulting/Accenture. Mr. Goodman holds a BSE in Civil Engineering from Princeton University with an emphasis in Architecture. Ford is a member of the 2000 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.