Nat Goldhaber

A. Nathaniel ("Nat") Goldhaber is an American venture capitalist, computer entrepreneur and politician. He was the 2000 U.S. Vice President candidate for the Natural Law Party.^[1]

Education

Goldhaber received a BA in interdisciplinary studies from Maharishi International University and an MA in Education from the University of California, Berkeley. Goldhaber is an emeritus member of the Executive Board of the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley.^[2]

Career

In the 1960s, Goldhaber became interested in meditation and worked directly with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation technique.^[1] In 1971, Goldhaber helped establish Maharishi International University, now an accredited institution in Fairfield, Iowa under the name Maharishi University of Management.^[1][2] In 1976, he wrote TM: an Alphabetical Guide to the Transcendental Meditation Program with Denise Denniston and Peter McWilliams.^[3]

From 1979 to 1982, Goldhaber worked in Pennsylvania politics as special assistant to the lieutenant governor William Scranton III and later as the interim director of the state's energy agency.^[1]

Goldhaber left government to build a career in high technology and founded his first company, Centram Systems Inc., which developed networking for personal computers.^[1]

Goldhaber was the founder and chief executive of TOPS, a computer networking company which Goldhaber sold to Sun Microsystems in 1987 for $20 million. Goldhaber then served as Vice President of Sun Microsystems.^[2] Centram Systems product, called TOPS ("Transcendental Operating System"), allowed transparent file sharing among Macs, PCs, and Unix machines, using the AppleTalk protocol.^[1]

In 1989, Goldhaber became the president of Cole Gilburne Goldhaber & Ariyoshi Management, a venture capital firm specializing in high technology for computers.^[1][2]

In 1992, IBM and Apple Computer Inc. appointed Goldhaber as president and founding CEO of their joint multi-media venture, Kaleida Labs.^[1]

In 1995, Goldhaber became the founding CEO of Cybergold, an Internet marketing and payment system which went public in 1999 and was acquired by MyPoints.com, Inc. in August 2000 in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $160 million.^[2]

Goldhaber was the Natural Law Party nominee for Vice President in 2000 on the ticket with presidential candidate, John Hagelin. At the convention for a splinter faction of the Reform Party of the United States of America allied with party founder Ross Perot, Goldhaber won the nomination for Vice President over candidate Lenora Fulani by a vote of 120-66. The Federal Elections Commission later decided that Buchanan and Fulani were the Reform Party's legitimate nominees.^[4]

In 2005, Goldhaber established Oakland-based Claremont Creek Ventures with colleagues, Randy Hawks and John Steuart, specializing in Internet technology investments in the San Francisco Bay Area. Goldhaber currently serves as Managing Director.^[2]

In 2011, AOL.com named Goldhaber resident expert at Claremont Creek Ventures on energy conservation and management systems and one of the Top Five Clean Energy VCs and Principals in the US.^[5]

Other

Goldhaber serves on the Advisory Board for the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. He is a member of the US Secret Service Electronics Crime Taskforce and a Board Member of the Federation of American Scientists.^[2] He is also a friend of Electronic Frontier Foundation founder John Perry Barlow.^[6]

Personal

Goldhaber lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Marilyn and his three sons.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "NY Times, September 30, 1992, "Business Technology" Laurence Fisher". Nytimes.com. 1992-06-24. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/24/business/business-technology-apple-ibm-venture-chief-is-named.html. Retrieved 2011-01-15. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "Claremont Creek Ventures web site". Claremontvc.com. http://www.claremontvc.com/view.cfm/12/Our-Team. Retrieved 2011-01-15. 
3. ^ Goldhaber, Nat; Denniston, Denise; McWilliams, Peter (1976). TM: an alphabetical guide to the transcendental meditation program. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-24096-5. 
4. ^ Helm, Mark (September 13, 2000). "Buchanan wins fight for federal funds FEC rules in favor of arch-conservative in divided Reform Party". San Francisco Examiner: p. A.1. 
5. ^ Top Five Clean Energy VCs and Principals
6. ^ Who's Getting Your Vote?, Reason

External links

• Nat Goldhaber Bio

Preceded by Michael Tompkins

Natural Law Party Vice Presidential candidate 2000 (lost)

Succeeded by (none)

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