Founder/CEO

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Andrew Goldman has served as a chief strategy officer, global head of marketing,

and senior consultant to leading for-profit and non-profit CEOs for over twenty

years. He also has served in senior public-policy positions in the U.S. Department

of Defense and in the U.S. Congress, and worked as an editor/journalist at such

publications as the Wall Street Journal.

Andrew most recently was the Chief Strategy Officer at the non-profit “Great

Minds,” the leading K-12 curriculum provider in the country, which sells core

curriculum in Math, English and Science to public-school districts and private and

charter schools in all 50 states. Andrew oversaw the operating business, strategic

partnerships, and new-business integration.

Andrew’s other non-profit work included strategy and public-policy consulting for

the Center for Addiction/Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, the Campaign for

Tobacco-Free Kids, and the U.N. Foundation. Andrew worked directly with the

CEOs and Board members of these organizations on strategic projects ranging

from overhauling and redesigning corporate governance to refocusing and scaling

marketing, development and sales departments.

Andrew has been the Global Head of Marketing, Communications, and Public

Policy for some of the most successful technology-enabled, financialservices/

fintech firms, including Island ECN, Instinet and Gerson Lehrman Group.

In these roles, he oversaw all corporate communications and marketing, including

digital, print, and broadcast campaigns and managed worldwide media and

business partnerships.

Andrew also served as Special Assistant to U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney

and was a senior policy adviser to the Congressional Leadership on select security

and financial policy issues.

Andrew was one of the founding editors of the foreign-affairs publication, The

National Interest, and also worked as an editorial writer and editor at The Asian

Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and the Public Interest.