Brian Goffman

Brian Goffman is an experienced enterprise software executive. His background includes co-leadership of the GenAI and software practices at McKinsey & Company, where he served a variety of PE-backed and public software companies in North America and Europe. Earlier, he was a VP/GM at Samsung SmartThings (via acquisition), LinkedIn, and a director of product at Microsoft. Brian was also co-founder and CEO of Optify, a marketing automation software firm, acquired by Adobe Marketo.

Brian sits on the Board of Directors for Guidepost portfolio company Shibumi. He was an independent board member at BrightTALK, also a Guidepost portfolio company, acquired by TechTarget.

Brian earned an A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.