Dan Goldenberg serves as Activision Blizzard’s Head of Sustainability and Vice President of CSR while also leading the Call of Duty Endowment. Goldenberg, a retired Navy Captain, brings to the job two decades of business experience and 27 years of active and reserve military service–including serving as a Sr. Vice President at Frost & Sullivan and prior to that as a senior director and practice manager at CEB (now Gartner). Highlights of his military service include four tours as a commanding officer, carrier-based naval flight officer, intelligence officer, and special assistant to four Secretaries of the Navy: John Dalton, Richard Danzig, Robin Pirie and Gordon England.
Under his leadership, Activision Blizzard has entered the top quartile of America’s Greenest Companies (Newsweek) and the Call of Duty Endowment has risen to become the world’s largest philanthropic funder of veteran employment, backing more than 130,000 high quality job placements at 1/19th the cost per placement of U.S. Department of Labor efforts, and achieving $7.9 billion in economic impact for veterans and their families.
In 2021, Goldenberg founded and assumed leadership of Activision Blizzard’s Corporate Social Responsibility function, which included Environmental, Social and Governance reporting. Through his leadership, the company calculated and disclosed its full carbon footprint, becoming the first pure play video game to do so, while embarking on a dozen mitigation efforts to achieve its SBTi-aligned Net Zero goal. Also, during his tenure, the Endowment has won more than 30 national awards, including four Engage for Good Halo Awards, two YouTube Streamys, a Clio and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award. He also serves on the Bush Institute’s Advisory Board and the USAA Educational Foundation’s Board of Governors.
Goldenberg is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, National Intelligence University, Harvard Business School, MIT’s Chief Sustainability Officer Program, and the Air Command and Staff College. From his military service, he holds several individual and campaign awards, including the Defense Superior Service Medal.