Tyler Godoff

Senior Advisor at Emissary Partners

Speaker

Tyler Godoff is a Senior Advisor to Emissary and general partner of Emerging Founder, which specialises in backing first-time founders and fund managers.

Prior to founding Emerging Founder, Tyler was a vice president at the Fine Line Group, a single-family office within the Bass Companies. At the Fine Line Group, Tyler managed direct and fund venture investments and an early-stage fund that backed founders and ventures with a meaningful connection to Fort Worth.

Earlier in his career, Tyler was a member of the Innovation Strategy group at Barrick, the world’s leading gold mining company. At Barrick, Tyler worked with the chief innovation officer to build partnerships with leading tech companies and early-stage ventures to scale Barrick’s innovation strategy.

In addition, Tyler was part of the team that managed Barrick’s joint-venture relationship with the Shandong Gold Group. Prior to Barrick, Tyler worked on business strategy and product management at two-early-stage ventures in Boston and San Francisco. Upon graduating university, Tyler joined Sinotrans in Beijing as the first foreign new hire in the company’s 60 year history.

Currently, Tyler is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a mentor for Venture for America. He holds a B.S. in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Yale University.