John Keister resigns from board — Marchex co-founder

Keister has held a number of executive positions with the firm.

John Keister, a founder of Marchex, resigned his board position today.

Keister was executive vice chairman since May 2010 and was a member of Marchex’ board of directors since its inception in January 2003.

He also served in a number of executive positions for the firm, counting as president from December 2003 through April 2010 and as chief operating officer from January 2003 until March 2009.

Keister was a co-founder of Go2Net, which later merged with InfoSpace.

An SEC filing states that Keister’s resignation “is not the result of any disagreement with Marchex on any matter relating to Marchex’s operations, policies or practices”.

Marchex is right now in the process of spinning out its domain name business into a fresh firm called Archeo.