Ezra Goldman

Ezra Goldman has a 25-year history in the high-technology market, as a software architect and project development leader, general corporate manager, facilitator of strategy and marketing, and mergers and acquisitions.
He puts that experience to use as one half of Lachman Goldman Ventures, a private angel/seed investment partnership that helps launch very early stage Internet and network companies.
Together with his partner, Ron Lachman, Ezra actively advises and lends a hand as needed at any of the many portfolio companies.
Before focusing exclusively on hands-on early-stage investing Ezra was Vice President for Systems Integration at global integrator SHL Systemhouse where he helped build the Chicago/Midwest practice from startup to over $30M.
Ezra was vice president of marketing for the services and technologies division at Kodak's INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation.
Before that, he managed the systems development and integration services and founded the business unit that produced the leading networking software products for UNIX System V: NFS and TCP/IP protocols.
The licensing of these products to over 75 major computer manufacturers accelerated the adoption of open Internet protocols.
Ezra holds a B.S.
in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
A long time ago Ezra was a member of the UNIX systems development team at AT&T Bell Laboratories and contributed to a number of pioneering implementations of UNIX systems including the large-scale UNIX/370 project and he can still pass, occasionally, as technically clueful.