David Karnstedt

Current

• President & CEO at Efficient Frontier
• Executive in Residence at Redpoint Ventures

Past

• Senior Vice President North American Sales at Yahoo
• Senior Vice President, Direct Business at Overture Services Inc. (formerly: GoTo.com)
• Senior Vice President, Direct Business at Yahoo Search Marketing/Overture

• Senior Vice President Direct Business at Yahoo! Search Marketing
• Vice President General Manager Consumer Business at AltaVista
• Western Advertising Director at Wired Digital
• Midwest Territory Manager at CR Bard Davol Division
• Sales at Motivation Media, Inc.

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Education

• University of Illinois

Connections

465 connections

Industry

Internet

David Karnstedt’s Experience

• President & CEO

  Efficient Frontier

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  April 2009 — Present (9 months)

  Responsible for Efficient Frontier's overall strategy, management and operations for the company. Also serve on Efficient Frontier's Board of Directors

• Executive in Residence

  Redpoint Ventures

  (Internet industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Senior Vice President North American Sales

  Yahoo

  (Internet industry)

  September 2001 — September 2008 (7 years 1 month)

  Responsible for North American Revenue and Sales team including Search, Display, Right Media, Blue Lithium and the sale of emerging products such as Mobile, Video etc. Prior to this role I ran the Direct Business for GoTo and Overture Services

• Senior Vice President, Direct Business

  Overture Services Inc. (formerly: GoTo.com)

  (Internet industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years )

• Senior Vice President, Direct Business

  Yahoo Search Marketing/Overture

  (Internet industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years )

• Senior Vice President Direct Business

  Yahoo! Search Marketing

  (Internet industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years )

• Vice President General Manager Consumer Business

  AltaVista

  (Privately Held; CMGI; Internet industry)

  April 1999 — September 2001 (2 years 6 months)

  In this position, I was the General Manger for the Consumer Business encompassing all functions of the public facing website and search technology. Prior to this role, I was the VP of Sales

• Western Advertising Director

  Wired Digital

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  February 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 3 months)

  Managed the SF, LA, Chicago and Dallas Field Sales offices and the Inside Sales team

• Midwest Territory Manager

  CR Bard Davol Division

  (Public Company; Medical Devices industry)

  July 1992 — August 1994 (2 years 2 months)

  Responsible for managing a 10 state sales territory and the education and sale of Arthroscopic, Endoscopic, and medical devices.

• Sales

  Motivation Media, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  1988 — 1993 (5 years )

  Responsible for the sale of integrated communications programs to Fortune 500 hundred companies. These programs consisted of the new product launches, Computer based Sales Training, internet web site development and communications program consultation.

David Karnstedt’s Education

• University of Illinois

  BS , Communications , 1984 — 1988

  Activities and Societies:

  Sigma Chi. Student Ambassadors

Additional Information

David Karnstedt’s Groups:

•    Yahoo Alums
•    Ad eXchange Experts
•    GoTo.com Alumni

David Karnstedt’s Contact Settings

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• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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