Wallace Ford
CEO, GoodWorks International, Inc.

Wallace Ford is the President and Chief Operating Officer of GoodWorks International, LLC. Prior to joining GoodWorks, Mr. Ford served as principal and founder of Fordworks Associates Inc., a management consulting and advisory firm based in New York. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University’s Law School, Mr. Ford has held numerous high-level positions in the legal profession, academic, state and local government and on Wall Street where he worked as an investment banker. In recent years, Mr. Ford worked as an attorney at the law firm of Kaye Scholer, specializing in international corporate law. He was the New York City Commissioner of Ports and Trade as well as Commissioner of Business Services under former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the State of New York Mortgage Agency during the administration of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo.

During his career as an attorney and international business consultant, Mr. Ford provided strategic advisory counsel to clients in the United States, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. His clients included the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Irish Stock Exchange, the Republic of Haiti, Bloomberg, LLP, the Nigerian Investment and Securities Tribunal, the National Investment Bank of Jamaica. He also provided international representations to numerous U.S. based companies, including Bloomberg, LLP, Playboy Entertainment and Clorox.

Mr. Ford is a member of the faculty of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he has taught public and economic policy management in emerging market economies. He has also taught courses at the Metropolitan College of New York, Pace University and the Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York.

In addition to serving on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and United Way International, Mr. Ford has written for numerous publications, periodicals and lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He is the author of two novels, “The Pride” and “What You Sow,” published respectively in 2005 and 2006.