Ted Meisel

Ted Meisel joined the Board of Hope Street Group in late 2005, and became Vice-Chairman in 2006.  He is a Senior Advisor with Elevation Partners.  In that role, he is actively involved in the direction of the Firm's portfolio companies as well as the evaluation of potential investments.

Meisel is the former CEO of Overture Services, which pioneered sponsored search advertising and made it a marketing staple.  He joined the company (originally GoTo.com) in late 1998 and led it to $1 billion in worldwide revenues by 2003, its fifth full year of operations.  At the end of 2003, Yahoo! acquired Overture for $1.8 billion and he stayed on to integrate and run the newly-named Yahoo! Search Marketing division as its president. He left Yahoo! at the beginning of 2006.

From 1996 to 1998, Meisel was an executive at CitySearch, now a division of IAC/Interactive Corp.  CitySearch became the leading internet city guide, ultimately absorbing its main competitor, Microsoft's Sidewalk.  His responsibilities included the areas of content, product management, product design, professional services, business development, and engineering.

Prior to CitySearch, he worked for the consulting firms McKinsey & Company and Strategic Planning Associates (now Mercer Management Consulting) in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Singapore.

Meisel is an active advisor to and investor in a number of early-stage and established organizations on digital media strategy and operations.  He is the Chairman of Veoh Networks (http://www.veoh.com/), the leading independent internet television service, and a Board member with Zannel (http://www.zannel.com/) and Uber (http://www.uber.com/). 

Meisel holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and lives in Los Angeles.