Howard Goldman is a partner at Management Associates, an international management consulting firm that he founded 44 years ago - Clients include Apple, Cisco, hp, Yahoo!, Sales Force.com, and Twitter. Prior to that served as the Director of Artist Development for Capitol Records/EMI, developing such artists as the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Band, James Taylor, Merle Haggard, and Linda Ronstadt.

Additionally, Howard was a venture partner with Outlook Ventures in San Francisco. He is a Board Director, investor, and strategic advisor to numerous technology start-ups.

Since 2000, Goldman has served as co-designer and Principal Consultant to Sugoikaigi, a network of 60 Japanese coaches.

He was the Chairman of the Faculty of the Center for Management Design, a corporate university for senior executives. He received the “Breakthrough Award,” and “Leadership Award” from Transformational Technologies, his peers in the global consulting industry, in recognition for outstanding pioneering accomplishments.

Howard holds a B.S. in Film Direction from the Annenberg Center at Temple University, as well as graduate studies in Business, Philosophy, and Psychology.