Katherine Hemmerdinger-Goodman, or Kate Goodman, is a scion of the Hemmerdinger family that owns and operates New York City-based real estate developer Atco Properties & Management. She and her brother Damon Hemmerdinger are co-presidents of the company. She is responsible for human resources, residential property management, the brokerage division, construction unit Essential Design + Build, and Atcos legacy portfolio, predominantly located in New York City. She started working for the company in 1997, straight out of college, though she took time out to work for a public relations firm and the documentary department of CBS News, Inc. Goodman was also a project manager of a restaurant owned by Atco, called Atlas. She sits on the board of KiDS of NYU Langone Medical Center and is a committee member of the Stephen D. Hassenfeld Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Goodman is a licensed real estate broker. In June 1999, she married Adam Jason Goodman, a doctor. In 1996, she received a BA from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she majored in political science. She is a Class of 1992 alumna of the Nightingale Bamford- School, an elite all-girls college prep school located on the Upper East Side. She grew up in the 22-story rental building at 40 Central Park South that her great-grandparents constructed before World War II and moved back into it with her husband when the first of their three sons was born. MK