Ken Goldman has served as a TriNet Director since 2009. He brings more than 35 years of financial, operational and business management experience to TriNet’s board.
Goldman is currently the CFO of network security provider Fortinet and has been with that company since 2007. Prior to that, he held CFO positions at Siebel Systems, Excite@Home, Sybase, Cypress Semiconductor and VLSI Technology. Goldman helped grow VLSI’s revenues from $0 to $500 million in nine years and helped take the company public in 1983. He joined Sybase shortly after its IPO and helped the company reach $1 billion in revenue. Goldman also took Excite@Home public, in 1997, while increasing its revenues to $150 million. He managed 500 employees while at Siebel, overseeing IT, HR, Sales, Legal and Finance, for six years, until the close of Oracle's acquisition in January 2006.
Goldman earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a master's in business administration from Harvard. He is a member and the former president of The Financial Executive Institute, Santa Clara chapter, and was a four-year member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Advisory Council. He serves on the boards of other public and private companies and is a Trustee of Cornell.