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| Affiliation | Natural Law |
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| Name | Nat Goldhaber |
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Fairfield, Iowa , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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February 15, 1948
(76 years)
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| Contributor | InspectorMorse |
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| Info | A. Nathaniel ("Nat") Goldhaber - An Internet entrepreneur and longtime associate of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was the Natural Law Party nominee for Vice President in 2000 on the ticket headed by John Hagelin. At the convention of the splinter faction of the Reform Party of the United States of America allied with party founder Ross Perot, Goldhaber won the nomination for Vice President over Marxist political activist and perennial candidate Lenora Fulani by a vote of 120-66.
In 1966, Goldhaber opened one of Maharishi's first Transcendental Meditation centers in the U.S. Goldhaber worked as a personal aide to Maharishi and founded Maharishi University in Iowa 1972.
Goldhaber later become a top aide Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor William Scranton III in 1979. There, he served as the interim director of the Governor's Energy Council -- equivalent to the Secretary of Energy for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Scranton, like Goldhaber, was another follower of Maharishi.
Goldhaber was the founder in 1984 of Centram Systems West also known as TOPS, a local area networking company which he sold to Sun Microsystems in 1987 where he then served as Vice President. Their product TOPS ("Transcendental Operating System") allowed transparent file sharing among Macs, PCs, and Unix machines, using the AppleTalk protocol. In 1989, Goldhaber became the president of the Cole Gilburne Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in computer software. In 1991, he became the founding president of Kaleida Labs, a multimedia joint venture between IBM and Apple Computer. In 1995, he founded Cybergold, an Internet marketing and payment system which went public in 1999 and was acquired by MyPoints.com, Inc. in August 2000 in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $160 million.
In 2005, Goldhaber established Oakland-based Claremont Creek Ventures with colleagues, Randy Hawks and John Steuart, specializing in IT investments in the San Francisco Bay Area. Goldhaber has an estimated net worth in excess of $35 million.
Goldhaber is a 1973 BA in interdisciplinary studies from Maharishi International University and a 1985 MA in Education from the University of California, Berkeley. Goldhaber and his wife Marilyn have triplet sons: Samuel, Benjamin, and Charles. He is a licensed pilot.
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