Jon Goodman, Ph.D.
President, Town Hall Los Angeles

Jon Goodman is a private investor and advisor to emerging technology companies. Previously, she was the architect, founder and Executive Director of EC2, The Annenberg Incubator Project, and Director, Distance Learning, Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. Founded in 1995, EC2 recruited a unique combination of technologists, creative artists, industrial partners and venture capital to create the original Internet incubator. Prior to founding EC2, Dr. Goodman was the Director of the Entrepreneur Program and Professor at USC's Marshall School of Business, leading it to top-five national rankings. She is a co-founder of several companies, and previous Chairman of the Board of Directors of CUBancorp (NASDAQ, sold to Bank of Hawaii).

She moderated "Something Ventured," a 26-part series which was repeated for seven seasons on PBS, is a frequent commentator in national and international media and is co-author of Leading with Knowledge: the Nature of Competition in the 21st Century (Sage Publications, 1999) and many articles in scholarly and trade publications. Dr. Goodman was selected by Wired magazine as one of the 20 people in the nation who will help form the future of the entertainment industry and by the Los Angeles Times as one of the 10 most influential people in the region's technology business.

Dr. Goodman is a board member of Puente Learning Center and serves on the boards of several private corporations and funds.

Dr. Goodman holds an MBA degree from the University of Connecticut where she was elected to the School of Business Hall of Fame (2004) and a Ph.D. in Business Strategy/Microeconomics from the University of Georgia, where she was named Distinguished Alumna of the Terry College of Business in 1995.