Esther Goodman is the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of Kenmar Group, an international investment advisory firm specializing in the design and management of alternative investment products.
After graduating with a degree in psychology from Stanford University in 1974, she joined Loeb Rhoades and Company, Inc., where she was responsible for the development and management of a managed futures program, which in 1979 became the trading system for Westchester Commodity Management, an independent Commodity Trading Advisor of which she was a founder and principal. She held positions with Commodities Corp. (USA), Managed Futures Trade Association, and Managed Futures Association before joining the Kenmar Group in 1986.
Along with her husband, Marc, Goodman established the Stacy Joy Goodman Memorial Foundation with the purpose of funding research to cure diabetes after their daughter lost her battle with the disease at the age of 17. In 1996, they and the DRIF board established the Stacy Joy Goodman Chair in Diabetes at the Diabetes Research Institute of which Dr. Camillo Ricordi holds the distinguished title.
Goodman continues to serve on the board of the Stacy Joy Goodman Foundation and remains very involved with multiple events for the DRI Foundation. She has co-chaired the New York Research Update and has been very involved in New York’s Crystal Ball. The Goodmans are also Grand Founders of the organization.