Seth Goldman is president and TeaEO of Honest Tea

Honest Tea

Honest Tea is a bottled organic tea company based in Bethesda, Maryland. It was founded in 1998 by Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff. On February 5, 2008, the Coca-Cola Company announced its purchase of a 40% stake of the company at $43 million....

, which he co-founded in 1998 with his former business school professor, Barry Nalebuff.

Before launching Honest Tea, Goldman was Vice President of the Calvert Group, which created the Calvert Social Index

Calvert Social Index

The Calvert Social Index is a stock market index created by Calvert Investments as a benchmark of large companies that are considered socially responsible or ethical. It currently consists of 468 companies, weighted by market capitalization, selected from approximately 1,000 of the largest publicly...

. Prior to that he was director of an AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps is a U.S. federal government program that was created under President Bill Clinton by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 and later expanded by 50 percent under President George W. Bush...

 demonstration project in Baltimore, MD, and served as deputy press secretary for Senator Lloyd Bentsen

Lloyd Bentsen

Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. was a four-term United States senator from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate...

 of Texas. He worked for a year in China (1987-1988) and a year and a half in the former Soviet Union (1989-1990). He graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

in 1987 with a degree in government, and from the Yale School of Management in 1995.

Goldman serves on the boards of Bethesda Green, Pennsylvania Certified Organic, Environmental Leadership Program, Happy Baby, and Net Impact. He is also an advisory board member of First Peoples Worldwide. He contributes The Mission-Driven Business blog on Inc.com.
Goldman grew up in Massachusetts and lives in Bethesda, MD.