As Executive Vice President, AOL Platforms and Technologies, Ted Cahall oversees Search, e-commerce, search company Relegence, publishing, and local services including MapQuest. These platforms are important to AOL's Web-based strategy of attracting audiences and directing them to other properties in the AOL network. Cahall also leads the company’s efforts to improve the performance of key AOL technologies and the AOL network, including its infrastructure and data center operations.
Cahall is an Internet business and technology veteran. Prior to joining AOL, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Classmates.com, a leading community-based networking company, where he directed operations for five Web properties in the U.S. and Europe. 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.
Preceding that, Cahall spent six years as Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at CNET Networks, where he managed the company's technology infrastructure and played a critical role in the development and growth of CNET Networks' leading brands, such as CNET, GameSpot, News.com, Download.com, Webshots, and ZDNet. He also converted the company from proprietary Unix hardware and software to an Intel/Linux infrastructure.
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. Cahall also held technology 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.
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.
