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New York, NY-based Aol has promoted Curtis Brown as Chief Technology Officer.
About the Company
AOL is a global media and technology company, representing the best of all worlds: premium content and innovative technology. Our continued growth and evolution is the product of nearly a decade of careful cultivation of our internal strengths, coupled with thoughtful acquisitions and rigorous integration of the very best technologies and talents on the market. Today, AOL utilizes its four pillars of video, mobile, ad technology and platforms, and open ecosystems both within our own properties such as The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Mapquest, and MAKERS as well as when working with brands to reach new audiences and drive compelling narratives in ways never done before.
About the Person
As Chief Technology Officer, Curtis Brown leads all aspects of AOL’s technology strategy, platform development, operations and external technology partnerships. Curtis previously served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of AOL’s global advertising business, Advertising.com, as well as Senior Vice President for AOL Media. He is a technology leader with over 25 years of experience across a range of media and internet driven businesses and has an extensive background in building and managing large web sites and technical teams. An internet pioneer, Curtis built and launched one of the first music e-commerce sites, CDNow, back in 1995. He has held the title of CTO at Skymall, Oxygen Media, The Princeton Review, CTB/McGraw-Hill and Kaplan Test Prep. Curtis has lectured at Columbia University in the field of Executive Information Technology Management, served as a member of the IT Technology Advisory Board at the New School and the CTO Advisory Council for InfoWorld magazine and is a founding member of the New York City CTO Club. A New York native, Curtis graduated cum laude from New York University and has additional graduate studies in Psychology.
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