Ellen Siminoff
Ellen Siminoff (born Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an entrepreneur and investor. Siminoff was a founding executive and Senior Vice President of Yahoo, where she ran business development, corporate development, and the small business and entertainment business units between 1996 and 2002.[1]
Siminoff is currently Chief Executive Officer of Shmoop, an educational website.[2] She is Chairman and former CEO of Efficient Frontier.[3] In her 5 years as CEO, Siminoff built Efficient Frontier into the largest buyer of search advertising keywords on Google [4] and one of the 25 most valuable privately-held companies in Silicon Valley, at an estimated $275 million valuation, according to Silicon Alley Insider.[5]
In 2005, Forbes Magazine named her one of their Masters of Information.[6]
Siminoff has been quoted in the New York Times as an Internet industry commentator.[7][8][9][10]
Siminoff obtained a BA in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University.[11]
Siminoff sits on the board of directors for:
- Mozilla Corporation [12]
- Efficient Frontier [13]
- Journal Communications [14] (NYSE: JRN)
- 4info [15]
- US Auto Parts [16] (NASDAQ: PRTS)
- SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE:SWI)
She and her husband, David Siminoff, live in Los Altos Hills, California.
[edit] References
- ^ http://docs.yahoo.com/info/investor/inv_officers.html
- ^ http://www.shmoop.com/public/management/
- ^ http://efrontier.com/efficient-frontier/aboutus/board.html
- ^ http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_30/b3994069.htm
- ^ http://www.alleyinsider.com/companies/efficient_frontier
- ^ http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/0905/118.html
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/technology/05soft.html
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/technology/07yahoo.html
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/technology/03google.html
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/technology/05yahoo.html
- ^ http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/6480.asp
- ^ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html
- ^ http://efrontier.com/efficient-frontier/aboutus/board.html
- ^ http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=145779&p=IROL-Bio&t=Regular&id=166430&
- ^ http://www.4info.net/about/leadership.jsp
- ^ http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=210452&privcapId=4597614&previousCapId=4597614&previousTitle=U.S.%20Auto%20Parts%20Network,%20Inc.
