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Seth Goldman

American businessman (born 1965)

Seth Goldman (born 1965) is an American businessman. He is the former CEO of Honest Tea which he co-founded in 1998 with his former business professor, Barry Nalebuff.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Seth Goldman (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1965.¹

About

Goldman is the executive chairman of Beyond Meat, a plant-based protein company based in El Segundo, California.

From Wikipedia’s article on Seth Goldman, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Beyond MeatBoard member May 26, 2020 to now⁷

Holdings

Stock this person has reported owning, from the forms officers and directors file with the SEC. See the biggest insider stakes.

Shares held

Beyond Meat BYND1,121,418 shares⁸$7.4M at $6.63May 22, 2026

As of each latest filing. The line shows shares held over time.

Recent filings

May 20, 2026Granted 152,555 shares of Beyond Meat⁸
May 23, 2024Granted 14,895 shares of Beyond Meat⁹
May 24, 2023Granted 8,228 shares of Beyond Meat¹⁰
May 24, 2022Granted 2,982 shares of Beyond Meat¹¹

Early life and education

Date not recordedNoble and Greenough School³
Date not recordedYale University³
Date not recordedHarvard University³
Date not recordedYale School of Management³

Career

Occupation: businessperson.⁵

Date not recordedBoard member, Beyond Meat⁴

Personal life

Goldman was born in 1965 and was raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is Jewish. His father is the economist Marshall Goldman, and his mother, Merle Goldman, was a professor of Chinese history at Boston University. Goldman graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1983.

Goldman attended Harvard University, where he studied government affairs and was a student athlete, competing in cross country running and track and field. During his freshman year, he lived in Straus Hall, where NHL executive Peter Chiarelli and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney were his roommates. After graduating in 1987, he taught English for a year in Russia and at a Beijing university. Afterwards, he worked on Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign in 1988. He then served for three years as a deputy press secretary for Dukakis' running mate, United States Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. According to the Boston Herald, he exited the political arena and enrolled in the Yale School of Management after determining that "private enterprise could promote the public good".

Goldman was a volunteer for Americorps. He interned for the United States Department of State.

Goldman married Julie Farkas in 1990, whom he met while working on Lloyd Bentsen’s vice presidential campaign. After they met they both did work at the cooperative school in Moscow where they both taught English. He has three sons. Goldman and his family are vegans.

After graduating from the Yale School of Management in 1995, he worked at the mutual fund company Calvert Investments, which concentrates on socially conscious investments. He served as a vice president for the company.