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Graham Clifford Goodkind (born 18 January 1966)[ citation needed ] is an English businessman.
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Graham Clifford Goodkind (born 18 January 1966)[ citation needed ] is an English businessman.
Goodkind was born on 18 January 1966[ citation needed ] in Dollis Hill, Willesden,[ citation needed ] to Derek Goodkind,[ citation needed ] a furrier and his wife Pessa.[ citation needed ] Goodkind is an only child.[ citation needed ] He was educated at the University College School, Hampstead [ citation needed ] and then graduated from the London Metropolitan University, where he read Business Studies and Marketing.[ citation needed ]
After graduating, Goodkind took up the offer of work experience at Lynne Franks PR in December 1989.[ citation needed ]. He got a full-time job as a trainee account executive at Lynne Franks PR after a month and in seven years worked his way up to the position of managing director.[ citation needed ]
Goodkind subsequently left to set up an internet venture at the beginning of the dotcom boom called Funmail, later re-branded as another.com.[ citation needed ] It offered free web-based email with many domains. Initially planning on listing on the AIM, [1] the company instead accepted an offer instead from Eden, an investment company, to purchase a 20% stake for £6.5m, valuing the fledgling business at £31.25m. [2] Graham, together with one other founder, sold his stake in the company a year later, before the dotcom bubble burst.[ citation needed ]
In September 2000, Graham founded Frank PR. [3]
Graham is also a board member of Camden Town Unlimited, [4] a business improvement district in Camden.
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