Don Gooding

Don Gooding has been Executive Director of the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development since October 2010, and is host of the Saturday evening television show Greenlight Maine. He served as Vice Chair of the Maine Angels for four years, and has taught or spoken about innovation and entrepreneurship at seven Maine colleges. Previously he was a telecommunications market analyst and venture capitalist for sixteen years, then founded and ran a global a cappella music business for sixteen years based out of Southwest Harbor. The “Gooding Cups” are now given out at the big college and high school a cappella competitions, the real world events on which the movie “Pitch Perfect” is based.