John B. Goodrich

John has a variety of business and legal experience working with technology-based companies and serves as an advisor to several startup companies. John served as a Director of Trimble since January 1981. He retired in 2002 from the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati where he practiced corporate, federal tax, securities and intellectual property law from 1970 until 2002. Since then he has worked as a business consultant, rancher and investor. From 2004 to 2009, he also served as the Chief Executive Officer of MaxSP Corporation, an information technology services company. John currently serves on the board of directors of the Fogarty Institute for Innovation. He owns and operates the Tonini Farm and Cattle Company in San Luis Obispo and has advised beef marketing companies in the Northwest.

He has taught securities and tax law courses at Santa Clara University and lectured in business and technology seminars at Stanford University. Mr. Goodrich received an LLM in Taxation from New York University in 1970, a J.D. from the University of Southern California in 1966 and a B.A. degree from Stanford University in 1963.