<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, turnover]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, turnover]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/turnover http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/turnover <![CDATA[Kate Everett-Thorp is faster than a speeding profile]]> kate-everett-thorp.jpgSomebody give AKQA a "perfect timing" award. Two weeks ago, the ad agency scored a fawning media profile of president Kate Everett-Thorp. Industry portal Adotas praised the exec for bringing her "Human Media" marketing ideology to AKQA. This week, Everett-Thorp took that ideology somewhere else, dumping AKQA for Walden VC. Now she's shopping around for a startup to run. Hopefully we'll hear about her next job before she quits it.

Part Mom, Part Crusader: AKQA s Kate Everett-Thorp [Adotas]
Everett-Thorp Departs AKQA [MediaWeek]
Everett-Thorp Joins Walden [MediaPost]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=152380&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sixteen fallen Midas Listers]]> goldfinger.pngForbes's Midas List ranks "the best dealmakers in high-tech and life sciences." Predictable names at the top of the list of 25: venture capitalist John Doerr and pretty much anyone else who got into Google early enough. But enough celebration of the Google effect. What of all the people who've been knocked down the Silicon Valley pecking order? Sixteen who made the list last year are relegated, including, poignantly, Vinod Khosla, Doerr's former colleague at Kleiner Perkins.

Investor 2005 rank Current venture
Promod Haque 8 Yatra, Indian travel sales
Vinod Khosla 9 Biofuels
David Strohm 11 Edge Dynamics, channel commerce management
Seth Neiman 12 Off the radar
R David Spreng 13 Serving on National Venture Capital Association board
Paul Chamberlain 14 Bumped up to co-head of  Morgan Stanley's global tech-industry group
Roger Evans 15 Silver Peak Systems, business networking
Tench Coxe 17 Nvidia, computer graphics
Roland Van der Meer 18 Axesstel, telecom
William Ford 19 Likely to join New York Mercantile Exchange board
Kevin Compton 20 Protrade, athlete stock market
Geoffrey Yang 21 Still at TiVo
Robert Davoli 22 Off the radar after resigning from Versata, software
James Wei 23 FyreStorm, semiconductors
Andrew Rachleff 24 Windy Hill Kids Film Festival, founded by 13-year-old daughter Shelby
Michael Homer 25 Mi5 Networks, anti-spyware
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