COMPANY

America Online. At one time the nation's largest ISP, with a userbase of 30M. Early acquisitions include CompuServe (1997), Mirabilis (maker of ICQ, 1998), Netscape (1998), Moviefone (1999), Nullsoft (maker of WinAmp, 1999), and MapQuest (1999). Merged with Time Warner in 2001, forming AOL Time Warner and keeping that name for a year.

Suffering a precipitous decline in its membership, AOL was spun off in 2009; it is now primarily an online publishing company. Recent acquisitions include Bebo (2008), TechCrunch (2010), and The Huffington Post (2011).

Official Website:
http://www.aol.com/

Industry:
Communications

Ticker:
NYSE:AOL

Employees:
6700 (2009)

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Carl Cannon	Journalist	c. 1953		RealClearPolitics

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Marc Andreessen	Computer Programmer	26-Apr-1971		Co-Founder of Netscape
Bruce R. Bond	Business	c. 1947		CEO of PictureTel Corporation, 1998-99
Jonathan B. Bulkeley	Business	c. 1960		Chairman of QXL Ricardo, 1998-2004
Steve Case	Business	21-Aug-1958		CEO of AOL, 1991-2001
Mary Cheney	Relative	14-Mar-1969		Lesbian daughter of Dick Cheney
W. Lance Conn	Business	c. 1969		Vulcan, Inc.
Charles M. Herington	Business	c. 1959		EVP at Avon
James Kimsey	Business	1939		AOL's founding CEO
Susan Mernit	Business	c. 1952		Former VP of Netscape, AOL
Kenneth J. Novack	Business	1941		Former Partner, Mintz Levin
Neil Smit	Business	c. 1959		CEO of Charter Communications
George Vradenburg	Attorney	14-Mar-1943		Strategic Advisor for AOL Time Warner

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Franklin Raines	Government	14-Jan-1949		CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jim Barksdale	Business	24-Jan-1943		CEO of Netscape, 1995-99
Steve Case	Business	21-Aug-1958		CEO of AOL, 1991-2001
Frank J. Caufield	Business	c. 1940		Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Alexander Haig	Government	2-Dec-1924	20-Feb-2010	US Secretary of State, 1981-82
Thomas Middelhoff	Business	11-May-1953		CEO of Bertelsmann, 1997-2002
Kenneth J. Novack	Business	1941		Former Partner, Mintz Levin
Scott C. Smith	Publisher	13-Sep-1950		President of Tribune Publishing, 2005-08

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Arianna Huffington	Columnist	15-Jul-1950		The Huffington Post
John Scalzi	Novelist	10-May-1969		Old Man's War
Rich Skrenta	Computer Programmer	1967		First PC virus, Elk Cloner

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Snoop Dogg	Rapper	20-Oct-1971		Sippin' on gin, juice
Elle Macpherson	Model	29-Mar-1963		Tall supermodel
Ed O'Neill	Actor	12-Apr-1946		Al Bundy on Married with Children
Julia Roberts	Actor	28-Oct-1967		Pretty Woman
Jerry Stiller	Actor	8-Jun-1927		Frank Costanza on Seinfeld
Sharon Stone	Actor	10-Mar-1958		Basic Instinct

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