Experience

Donald L. Frankenfeld  
EDUCATION  
Yale AB, Harvard Business School MBA, Harvard Kennedy School MPA. Study as a Bush Foundation Fellow included Advanced Torts, Economics and the Law, Strategy and Conflict, Negotiation, Venture Capital, Harvard Program on Negotiation workshop. Former NYSE branch manager, registered options principal, member New York Society of Security Analysts.
CURRENT EXPERIENCE  
Frankenfeld.com May 1997 to Present
Founder and CEO of Internet-based marketing company with proprietary skills in virtual intelligence, Internet movies, and database-driven web sites. Create ultra-sticky web sites. Provide lawyers with online interactive economic damage calculations, comprehensive listing of economic experts, online library. Developed world's first full-length Internet movie, and first Internet-based voter contact and persuasion program. Author/publisher of "Frankenfeld Report" economic newsletter, principal speaker in multi-state seminar, "Using the Internet to Improve Your Legal Practice."
Frankenfeld Associates 1984 to Present
Forensic economist, securities expert and arbitrator. Prepare detailed economic analyses; evaluate and prepare settlement offers; analyze and evaluate work of opposing experts; testify at trial. Extensive state and federal court experience includes personal injury, wrongful death, employment termination, business or contract evaluation, antitrust, securities. Balanced plaintiff and defense engagements. Also conduct project analysis, investment analysis and financial planning for private clients. Experienced in mediation and negotiation. Court-appointed Receiver, Golden Hills Resort (on behalf of Homestake Mining Company). Designated arbitrator for National Association of Securities Dealers.
Dakota Ventures, Incorporated (DVI) 1991 to Present
Founder and CEO of bank-sponsored for-profit community development and venture fund. Oversee all marketing, research, negotiation, economic analysis, due diligence, planning.
PAST EXPERIENCE
E. F. Hutton 1979 to 1987
Direct Investment Manager for California, Texas and Florida. Conceived, developed and presented public investment seminars and training sessions. National Direct Investment Manager for fee-based Financial Planning Division; coordinated nationwide training and marketing programs.
Prior  
Investment analyst/associate economist for $2 billion trust department; senior investment analyst for NYSE firm; financial relations consultant; television station controller.
GOVERNMENT AND CIVIC PARTICIPATION  

Chair, School Overcrowding Task Force (1992). Congressional candidate (1990). Chair and campaign manager, People for YES on #4 (U S West, first-in-nation telecommunications deregulation, 1988). State senator (1977-1984). Chair, tax committee (authored nationally significant interest rate reforms).

Board member Western Providers (startup physician-hospital organization); board member Wellspring (family based counseling for adolescents); Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow; former vice chair South Dakota Investment Council ($2 billion retirement funds managed); former board member Crippled Children's Hospital and School; former vice chairman Rapid City Regional Hospital.

Quoted in Time (on politics), Money (on financial planning), and the Boston Globe (on investor relations). Reporter for Harvard Business School Harbus News.

PUBLICATIONS  
Economic Analysis Checklist, Economic Loss Estimator (both privately published); Determining and Proving Damages and Limiting Damages in South Dakota (co-author), National Business Institute, 1991.
  October 2000