Ted Cahall

Current

Chief Technology Officer at AOL

Past

President of Products Business Unit & Technologies Division at AOL
EVP/COO Internet Division at United Online, Inc.
CIO / SVP Engineering at CNET Networks, Inc.

Vice President / Systems Director at Bank of America
Engineering Manager at Clear Communications
Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at AT&T Bell Laboratories

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Education

University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago

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Ted Cahall’s Summary

Seasoned Internet and financial services executive with both business and technology experience in numerous, diverse online business models (advertising, lead generation, e-commerce, paid subscription, online banking, electronic bill presentment & payment). Experience with start-up, medium and extremely large companies.

Ted Cahall’s Specialties:

Deep Internet business and technology experience (15+ years at 4 companies). Expert at building, growing, managing, and operating highly scalable Internet businesses with over a billion dollars in revenue, one billion daily page views and 200Gbps+ of web and streaming bandwidth. Deft product insight into rapid implementation of complex business models and processes.

Ted Cahall’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer

AOL

(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

July 2009 — Present (6 months)

Executive manager of AOL's technology, architecture, engineering and operations in support of its multi-billion dollar online business including: MapQuest, Search, E-Mail, AIM, Advertising, Mobile, Publishing (News, Sports, Finance, Lifestyle, Latino, Black Voices, Games, etc.), Relegence, Blogsmith, Local, Search/CityGuides, Commerce & Marketplace (Shopping, Autos, Real Estate, Travel, Careers, Personals), Toolbars and the AOL Client.

Also responsible for AOL infrastructure including: global data centers, ATDN network, Network/Systems Administration, Network/Systems Management, Data Warehouse, Information Security, NOC, back-office applications, ISP infrastructure/applications and technology operations.

Spent previous two and a half years at AOL managing several business units as well as the technology infrastructure.
President of Products Business Unit & Technologies Division

AOL

(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

January 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 7 months)

President of the Products Business Unit as well as AOL's Technologies Division.

Executive manager of AOL's Products Business Unit including: MapQuest, Search, E-Mail, Truveo, Mobile, Publishing, Relegence, Blogsmith, Local, Search/CityGuides, And the AOL Client. Managed Commerce businesses: Shopping, Autos, Real Estate, Travel, Careers, Personals, and Mobile until early 2009.

Also responsible for AOL Technologies Division including: global data centers, ATDN network, Network/Systems Administration, Network/Systems Management, NOC, back-office applications, ISP infrastructure/applications and technology operations.
EVP/COO Internet Division

United Online, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; UNTD; Internet industry)

August 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Executive Officer of United Online, Inc. reported to CEO/Chairman. EVP/COO of all social networking properties including: Classmates Online, The Names Database, StayFriends.de, StayFriends.se, and Trombi.com. Simultaneously held position of EVP of United Online's Web Services (hosting) and PhotoSite divisions.
CIO / SVP Engineering

CNET Networks, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CNET; Internet industry)

January 2000 — August 2005 (5 years 8 months)

Member of Executive Committee and head of all technology and engineering functions for top ten Internet company. Managed 335 staff (peak) including all architecture, engineering, operations, data warehouse, advertising, newsletter and data centers functions. Also managed ERP back office and IS functions as well.
Vice President / Systems Director

Bank of America

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Banking industry)

October 1994 — December 1999 (5 years 3 months)

Second level manager responsible for software engineering of BofA's Online Banking and Electronic Bill Presentment / Payment systems. Previously responsible for all of BofA's Enterprise Architecture & Standards. Prior to that responsible for Institutional Trust Decision Support Application.
Engineering Manager

Clear Communications

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

August 1990 — October 1993 (3 years 3 months)

Engineering Manager and Chief Architect of T1 network management system company. Designed and delivered several increasingly larger and more complex versions of the system to large customers such as: GTE, Goldman Sachs, Northern Telecom, etc.
Member of Technical Staff (MTS)

AT&T Bell Laboratories

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Computer Networking industry)

March 1985 — August 1990 (5 years 6 months)

First engineering position after graduating from college. Promoted from MTS-E to MTS in 14 months. Worked on data communication systems and built communications device drivers for real-time version of Unix operating system. Received a U.S. patent for system performance analysis. Promoted to architect, system lead and project manager for electronic software distribution system.