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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Sasan Goodarzi
Leading Intuit in delivering on its mission of powering prosperity around the world.

About Sasan
Sasan Goodarzi is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Intuit, where he leads the company in delivering on its mission of powering prosperity around the world.
Upon becoming CEO in 2019, Goodarzi declared Intuit's strategy to be an AI-driven expert platform with data and artificial intelligence fueling innovation across the company. Under his leadership, Intuit has transformed from a tax and accounting platform to a global financial technology platform. Today, with the powerful combination of Intuit's proprietary data, domain-specific AI platform capabilities, and AI-powered human expertise, the company is setting the standard for trusted financial intelligence.
During Goodarzi's tenure, the company has delivered record revenue growth and been recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company and others as a leader in AI innovation and one of the world's best companies to work for.
Prior to becoming CEO, Goodarzi successfully led Intuit's two largest businesses - its consumer group and its global business solutions group. Previously, his roles at Intuit included serving as Intuit's chief information officer, as the general manager of Intuit's ProTax organization, and as the general manager of Intuit's Financial Services Division.
Before Intuit, Goodarzi worked for Invensys, a global provider of industrial automation, transportation, and controls technology, serving as global president of the products group. He also held a number of senior leadership roles in the automation control division at Honeywell and served as the CEO and co-founder of a technology startup, Lazer Cables Inc.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Goodarzi immigrated to the United States as a child. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida and a master's in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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"With the combination of data, AI, and human expertise, we're helping consumers and businesses make financial decisions with confidence. This is the future of trusted financial intelligence."
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On the Q3 FY26 earnings call (May 20, 2026), CEO Sasan Goodarzi reported revenue of $8.6 billion, up 10 percent, total company guidance for revenue and all non-GAAP metrics for the full fiscal year. He shared that Intuit delivered significant growth in key areas across the company - assisted tax, money portfolio, and mid-market - all growing north of 30 percent. He also shared: "customers buy confidence, not code, which is why they spend at least 7 times more on accounting and tax experts than on software alone."
On the Q2 FY26 earnings call (February 26, 2026), Goodarzi reported revenue of $4.7 billion, up 17 percent. He highlighted that leading AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI partner with Intuit because in a high-stakes, regulated environment where customers face significant liability if they get it wrong, they demand more than generic LLM recommendations. He shared: "They require intelligence that is personalized, accurate, compliant, reliable, secure, and drives real action on their behalf....Our platform is designed to transcend and orchestrate across any system or app so whether the data sits with Intuit or elsewhere, we can connect it, interpret it, and help customers act with confidence."
On the Q1 FY26 earnings call (November 20, 2025), Goodarzi reported revenue of $3.9 billion, up 18 percent, and reaffirmed the three "Big Bets" set out at Investor Day: done-for-you AI and human intelligence experiences, money benefits, and disrupting the mid-market with an AI-native ERP platform. He shared: "Our AI-driven expert platform strategy is fueling strong growth by helping businesses manage from lead to cash, and consumers from credit building to wealth building, all in one place. We are becoming the system of intelligence, leveraging data, data services, AI, and human intelligence, which we'll refer to as HI, that everyone depends on to power their prosperity and fuel growth."
On the Q4 FY25 earnings call (August 21, 2025), Goodarzi closed fiscal 2025 with full-year revenue up 16 percent and Q4 revenue of $3.8 billion, up 20 percent, driven by 47 percent growth in TurboTax Live and 32 percent growth at Credit Karma. He said he was "incredibly proud of our momentum and strong fiscal year 2025 results."
Presented January 22, 2026, Intuit's FY26 Annual Stockholder Meeting reviewed the company's fiscal year 2025 results and discussed the company's AI-driven expert platform strategy to fuel growth. It reported FY25 revenue of $18.8 billion, up 16 percent.
At Intuit's 2025 Investor Day, CEO Sasan Goodarzi presented the company's growth strategy as an AI-driven expert platform built to deliver "more money, no work, complete confidence." He framed Intuit's opportunity as roughly 6 percent penetration of a $327 billion global TAM, anchored by three Big Bets: done-for-you experiences with AI and human intelligence, accelerating money benefits, and fueling mid-market success.
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He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Intuit, leading the company in its mission of powering prosperity around the world. He became CEO in 2019 and has transformed Intuit from a tax and accounting platform into a global financial technology platform.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Goodarzi and his family immigrated to the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution. He came to America at age 9, faced bullying and language barriers, and graduated high school in Orlando, Florida with a C-minus average.
He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida and a master's in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Intuit's strategy is to be an AI-driven expert platform. In Intuit's category, accuracy, compliance, security, and trust of financial decisions are critical, given the liability that comes with them. Intuit's powerful combination of proprietary data, domain-specific AI platform capabilities, and AI-powered human expertise is setting the standard for trusted financial intelligence. Ultimately, customers buy confidence, not code, which is why they spend at least 7 times more on accounting and tax experts than on software alone.
Intuit brings together data, AI, and human expertise into a single system of intelligence that does the work for customers. Intuit's platform enables businesses to manage from lead to cash, and consumers from credit building to wealth building, all in one place, so they can make high-stakes financial decisions with confidence.
He bet the company on AI in 2019 by declaring the company's AI-driven expert platform strategy. He shared that AI will disrupt every industry and how people live and work. And AI will be bigger than electricity and will be bigger than the internet, sparking global innovation across every industry.
At Intuit, AI will eliminate almost all the drudgery and manual work over time, but it will not change the importance of human interaction. In Intuit's category, accuracy, compliance, security, and trust of financial decisions are critical, given the liability that comes with them. Our powerful combination of proprietary data, domain-specific AI platform capabilities, and AI-powered human expertise is setting the standard for trusted financial intelligence. He also shared that people spend seven times more on tax and accounting experts as they do on software, because people don't buy code, they buy confidence.
He co-founded a partnership with the Pars Equality Center to sponsor the Goodarzi Scholarship Grant, which awards grants to female students of Iranian descent who have migrated to the United States within the last seven years and are enrolled in accredited higher education institutions in California.


