Draft:Sasan Goodarzi

Sasan K. Goodarzi
Sasan K. Goodarz (born July 7, 1968) is an American business executive and the chief executive officer of Intuit.

Early life and education
Goodarzi was born in Tehran, Iran. He left Tehran at the age of 9, eight months before the Iranian Revolution started. He and his mother settled in Orlando, FL, where his older brothers lived.

In 1989, Goodarzi graduated from The University of Central Florida (UCF) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. In 2002, Goodarzi completed graduate school at Northwestern, receiving his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Kellogg School of Management.

Career
Before his role at Intuit, Goodarzi served as an upper-level manager at Nexant, Inc. (now Resource Innovations), and Invensys (now Schneider Electric).

Goodarzi has been noted for overseeing the largest acquisitions since Intuit was founded in 1983. The company acquired Credit Karma for $8.1 billion and Mailchimp for $12 billion under Goodarzi. According to Yahoo! Finance, “…for the deal-making Goodarzi, the strategy is simple: bring in new technologies and grow Intuit even faster as a result.” He has been a guest on CNBC and covered in major media, including Forbes , Bloomberg , and New York Times.

Goodarzi serves on the boards for Atlassian and Intuit. He has launched internal social justice initiatives like hiring Intuit’s first Racial Equality Director, La Toya Haynes, and to create diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and events among Intuit’s workforce, such as its Trans+ Summit event.

In 2020 Goodarzi was named FORTUNE’s Businessperson of the Year.

Personal Life
Today, Goodarzi resides in the Bay Area with his wife, Shirin. They have two children.

Shirin and Goodarzi provide financial assistance to female students of Iranian descent who migrated to the United States in the last seven years through their scholarship program with the Pars Equality Center