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New York, NY-based Aol has Appointed William Pence as Global Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
AOL Inc. provides various digital brands, products and services to consumers, advertisers, publishers and subscribers worldwide. Its Brand Group segment offers content created by journalists, politicians, celebrities, academics, policy experts, freelance writers and bloggers, curated content, curated and aggregated content from third parties, and user-generated content through AOL.com and The Huffington Post sites, as well as Engadget, StyleList, and TechCrunch branded properties. This segment also consists of entertainment brands, such as Moviefone and Games.com; technology and marketplace brands comprising DailyFinance; and lifestyle brands, including Kitchen Daily, StyleMePretty, and Makers, as well as operates MapQuest, which offers online mapping and directions services. AOL Inc.`s Membership Group segment provides online storage, privacy, and security solutions to technical support, back-up and unlimited dial-up Internet access options, computer protection, and partner discounts; computer tools, maintenance, online technical support, anti-virus software, identity theft protection, online and social media privacy and reputation monitoring, online learning and other lifestyle services; and communications tools, such as AOL Mail, an e-mail service. The company`s AOL Networks segment offers interconnected programmatic, video, and premium advertising services for advertisers and publishers through Advertising.com, AOP, Adap.tv, Marketplace, The AOL On Network, Be On, ADTECH, and Pictela platforms. AOL Inc. distributes its content, products, and services through subscription access services; open Web, the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store, the Amazon Appstore, and the Android Market; and toolbars, widgets, co-branded portals and Websites, mobile aggregators, third party Websites, and social networks, as well as through search engine marketing and optimization distribution methods. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
About the Person
William Pence has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Aol. William previously was CTO at WebMD since November 2007 and has also served Chief Operating Officer of WebMD since May 2012. Before joining WebMD, Mr. Pence had served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Napster since 2003. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Pence was the Chief Technology Officer for Universal Music Group's online initiatives and for the pressplay joint venture with Sony. That joint venture later served as the basis for the relaunched Napster service. Previously, Mr. Pence spent more than a decade at IBM, where he held various technology management positions in research as well as in the software division, focused on guiding research and development and commercializing technology for IBM product divisions. Mr. Pence received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
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