Executive Profile

Terence J. Gooding

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer

Terence Gooding, an entrepreneurial industrialist, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Grass Valley Group. Gooding also is co-chairman of the board of Wavetek Wandel Goltermann Inc., the second largest international communications test company.

Dr. Gooding has 35 years of experience in managing, developing, acquiring, and restructuring international technology businesses. He has successfully led and grown five high technology companies, two of them to more than $1 billion in revenues.

In 1991, Gooding acquired Wavetek Corporation, a 29-year-old publicly owned company based in San Diego, California, and took it private. Under his leadership, with a sharp focus on product development, expansion of operations in Europe and Asia and three complementary acquisitions, the company was transformed into the second largest communications test company worldwide, with revenue growth from $60 million annually to $500 million annually in eight years.

Prior to Wavetek, Gooding transformed one of Britain's oldest scientific instrument companies, Cambridge Instruments, founded in 1881 by Horace Darwin, the son of the famous biologist Charles Darwin, into the world's largest manufacturer of optical instruments with revenue growth from $20 million to more than $1 billion in 11 years. In 1990, Cambridge acquired Wild Leitz Holding AG, which owned the famous Leica Camera Group, and became Leica plc.

In 1981, while Gooding was serving as chairman of Cambridge, he formed a new company, Picker International, with Britain's General Electric Company and acquired RCA's Picker Corporation, a $500 million medical imaging company, and GEC and Cambridge's medical businesses. Gooding served as president and CEO for five years. In 1993, Picker introduced the first commercial magnetic resonance medical imaging system.

Gooding founded Maxwell Laboratories in San Diego in 1965. Today, the high technology company, which has revenues of $200 million annually, serves government and commercial markets.

Gooding received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Wales in 1955, and a PhD. in nuclear physics from the University of Minnesota in 1958, while on a Fulbright scholarship.