David Teten is a consultant to the venture capital and private equity industries and a professional speaker. He was most recently Managing Director of Evalueserve, the world's largest knowledge process outsourcing company. Founded in 2000, the company has over 2,500 employees. Among its 1,100 clients are 6 of the top 10 investment banking entities and 10 of the top 15 strategy consulting firms. David joined Evalueserve when the firm acquired his company, the Circle of Experts.
David is a member of the Advisory Board for Accolo, Grouply, and the Word of Mouth Marketing Association. He is a frequent keynote speaker to finance and technology conferences, earning rave reviews.
David is co-author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, the first book on how businesses can use online networks and other "Web 2.0" technologies to originate deals, win new clients, recruit star employees, and market their firm. David runs TheVirtualHandshake.com reference site and blog.David was formerly CEO of Teten Executive Recruiting, which he sold to Accolo, #42 on the 2007 Inc. 500 list. Previously, he was CEO of GoldNames, an investment bank serving the internet domain name asset class. He worked with Bear Stearns' Investment Banking division as a member of their technology/defense M&A team, and was a strategy consultant with Mars & Co. He holds a Harvard MBA and a Yale BA, both with honors. He lives in New York with his family and two notebooks.
In 2003-4, Spoke Software was a corporate sponsor for nine of David Teten's speeches. Other than the ties disclosed on this page, David has no other financial relationships with companies that have or may be discussed on this website or in The Virtual Handshake book.
You can contact David Teten at the email address: handshake (at) teten.com.
