Jim Gibbons is an American nonprofit executive and was the CEO and president of Goodwill Industries from 2008 to 2018.

Biography

Gibbons earned his bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University, and attended the Harvard Graduate School of

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, where he was the first blind person to receive an MBA. Before coming to Goodwill in April 2008, he was CEO for 10 years of the

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. Prior to NIB, Gibbons was the president and CEO of Campus Wide Access Solutions, a subsidiary of AT&T. Gibbons is a member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council and also serves as a member of the board of directors for the

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, the National Workforce Solutions Advisory Board and

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. He lives in

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, Indiana.

Honors

On December 14, 2010, he was named to the newly established

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. In 2015, he won the

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given to leaders in the disability sector.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American nonprofit chief executives Purdue University College of Engineering alumni Harvard Business School alumni People from Fairfax Station, Virginia {{US-CEO-stub