Graham Goodkind
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Graham Clifford Goodkind (born 18 January 1966){{citation needed|date=March 2018}} is an English businessman.
Early life and education
Goodkind was born on 18 January 1966{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} in Dollis Hill, Willesden,{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} to Derek Goodkind,{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} a furrier and his wife Pessa.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} Goodkind is an only child.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} He was educated at the University College School, Hampstead{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} and then graduated from the London Metropolitan University, where he read Business Studies and Marketing.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
Career
After graduating, Goodkind took up the offer of work experience at Lynne Franks PR in December 1989.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}. 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|date=March 2018}}
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|date=March 2018}} It offered free web-based email with many domains. Initially planning on listing on the AIM,{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/07/05/web_flotation_will_be_absolutely/|title=Web Floatation will be Absolutely Fabulous|work= The Register|date= 5 July 1999 |accessdate=24 May 2011}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/an-absolutely-fabulous-idea-1116861.html|title=An Absolutely Fabulous Idea|work= The Independent|date= 6 September 1999 |accessdate=24 May 2011}} Graham, together with one other founder, sold his stake in the company a year later, before the dotcom bubble burst.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
In September 2000, Graham founded Frank PR.{{cite web|url=http://www.prweek.com/news/109207/PROFILE-Graham-Goodkind-Frank-PR---Frank-approach-makes-good-PR-Why-down-to-earth-philosophy-right-Graham-Goodkind-s-street/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH|title=Frank Approach makes good PR|publisher= PR Week|date= 6 September 1999 |accessdate=24 May 2011}}
Graham is also a board member of Camden Town Unlimited,{{cite web|url=http://www.camdentownunlimited.com/about-us/board |title= Board |publisher= Camden Town Unlimited |date= 1 May 2011|accessdate=24 May 2011}} a business improvement district in Camden.