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Burton M. Goldfield

Director
Burton M. Goldfield, Director

Burton M. Goldfield joined TriNet in 2008 and currently serves as president and chief executive officer. In this role, Goldfield is responsible for setting TriNet’s overall corporate strategy and directing business operations. Goldfield’s more than 25 years experience includes increasingly high profile executive-level sales, operations, and technology management positions, and he is known for his extensive expertise at successfully growing emerging businesses into large-scale corporations.

 

Prior to joining TriNet, Goldfield served as chief executive officer for Santa Clara-based Ketera Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) spend management solutions to Fortune 2000 companies. Previous to that, Goldfield came from Hyperion Solutions Corporation, where he was senior vice president of worldwide field operations with global responsibility for direct and indirect sales, consulting services, support, training and field marketing.

 

Previous to that, Goldfield was with IBM Corporation as vice president of worldwide sales for the Rational software brand, and was responsible for leading the global direct and indirect sales, consulting and field operations organizations. Prior to Rational being acquired by IBM in 2003, Goldfield held various senior executive leadership roles, over a 14 year period, as the company grew from $25M to more than $700M in annual revenue.

 

Mr. Goldfield received his bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Syracuse University, and his MBA from Villanova University.