Ted Cahall

Executive Vice President, Platforms and Technologies

As Executive Vice President, AOL Platforms and Technologies, Ted Cahall oversees the Platforms business unit, which includes Search, MapQuest, Relegence, publishing, Blogsmith, DMOZ, and AOL’s e-commerce channels (Shopping, Autos, Real Estate, Travel, Careers, Personals, and Mobile). These platforms are important to AOL's Web-based strategy of attracting and engaging audiences as well as directing them to the other properties in the AOL network.

Cahall also leads the Technologies division and its efforts to drive innovation and performance of AOL’s global datacenter operations, ATDN backbone network, Web and ISP infrastructures, network and systems management, information security, storage services, registration and billing systems, NOC, data warehouse, and data center automation. He is responsible for the systems operations of the AOL Products, Programming and Platforms business units, including the highly scalable AIM and AOL Mail infrastructures. Cahall is also responsible for the corporate e-mail, voice and desktop services.

Cahall is a seasoned global Internet business and technology veteran. Prior to joining AOL, he was Executive Vice President and COO of United Online's Internet properties, including Classmates.com, a leading community-based networking company with Web properties in the U.S., Sweden, Germany and France. Concurrently, he was also Executive Vice President of the United Online Web Services division, overseeing the company's various Web-hosting brands, including Freeservers.com and photo sharing service PhotoSite.

He was Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at CNET Networks for six years. He managed the company's Web site development, ad platform, data warehouse, technology infrastructure, data centers, and back-office systems in both the U.S. and Europe. Cahall played a critical role in the development and growth of CNET Networks' leading brands, such as CNET, GameSpot, News.com, CNET Shopper, Download.com, Webshots, and ZDNet.

Cahall spent six years as a Vice President at Bank of America. He managed systems development for its Internet home banking division and prior to that led its Enterprise Architecture & Standards division. He also held management positions at two network and systems management focused technology start-ups. He spent the first six years of his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he developed several network communication systems and received a U.S. patent for systems performance analysis.

He is currently active in the D.C. and Northern Virginia areas through board memberships on the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Greater Washington Board of Trade.

Cahall holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed non-degree, executive MBA studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.