Ira Parker

Ira Parker is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for AOL LLC. As General Counsel, he oversees the company's legal affairs, manages the AOL legal department, and counsels senior management on a wide variety of issues.

Parker joined AOL in 2006 from Polaroid Corp., where he served as Vice President and General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Compliance Officer. In that role, he was responsible for all legal, regulatory, and compliance matters.

Before joining Polaroid in 2004, Parker served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Genuity, Inc., an Internet infrastructure services provider formerly known as GTE Internetworking. Earlier at Genuity, he was Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Compliance Officer.

Parker also worked for GTE Corp. as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel and was a partner in Washington law firm Alston & Bird. Before that, he spent nearly 10 years with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) in Washington in various legal positions including Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of the FDIC's Resolution Trust Corp.

He earned his law degree from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta and received a bachelor of arts degree from Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, where he was a magna cum laude graduate.