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Ex-Yahoo Ad Exec Karnstedt to Efficient Frontier

Kara Swisher in News on April 2, 2009 at 11:16 am PT

Former top Yahoo advertising exec David Karnstedt, who has been parked at a Silicon Valley venture firm since he left the company, has been named president and CEO of Efficient Frontier. Interestingly, another former Yahoo exec, Ellen Siminoff, has also been CEO at the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based search engine marketing firm. She is now chairman.

AOL Gets a New CEO: Google Sales Boss Tim Armstrong (Plus the Whole Press Release)

Peter Kafka in Media on March 12, 2009 at 2:40 pm PT

Everyone who wondered why Randy Falco and Ron Grant were still running AOL finally got an answer today: Time Warner was lining up their replacement. Google sales chief Tim Armstrong becomes chairman and CEO of the troubled Web property, effective immediately.