David Teten is Co-Managing Director of Nitron Circle of Experts, a research firm which provides hedge funds, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and law firms with industry insights from a network of frontline industry experts. David is the coauthor of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, the first business book about online networks and other Web 2.0 technologies. He runs TheVirtualHandshake.com resource site and blog and co-writes a monthly column for FastCompany.com about Web 2.0 technology. He is an Advisory Board member of Accolo, Grouply, and the Word of Mouth Marketing Association.
David is a frequent keynote speaker to finance and technology conferences and such universities as Columbia Business School, Princeton, the Technion, Wharton, and Yale.
David was founder and CEO of Nitron, which he sold to Evalueserve. He was also formerly CEO of Teten Recruiting, which he sold to Accolo, the 2006 fastest-growing private company in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was also formerly CEO of GoldNames, an investment bank focusing on serving the internet domain name asset class, which he built to 450 customers. David worked with Bear Stearns' Investment Banking division as a member of their technology/defense mergers and acquisitions team, and was a strategy consultant with Mars & Co. David holds a Harvard MBA and a Yale BA. He lives in New York with his family and two notebooks.
In 2003-4, Spoke Software was a corporate sponsor for many of David Teten's speeches.
You can contact David Teten by email using the address handshake (at) teten.com.
