Marc Goodman

Marc Goodman is a Director at Alcatel-Lucent in the Americas Marketing Group where he focuses on forward-looking trends and technologies.  Marc is a social networking guru and for the past few years, has been researching social networking applications and how business, teens, and young adults interact with this growing trend of self-expression and communication.

Marc also manages the University Innovations Program which partners with universities to develop innovative and futuristic applications such as augmented reality, mobile social media, and video social networking.  He works with major service providers to uncover the value of these new technologies.

He has been at Alcatel-Lucent for over nine years and has held leadership positions in global marketing, business development, and new offer development.  Recently Marc was a panelist at the National Defense University’s Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds conference, where he was on a panel discussing the future of Augmented Reality for enterprise.

Marc has an Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business.