AOL Time Warner Names Patricia Fili-Krushel to New Position of Executive Vice President, Administration.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2001 AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL) today announced the appointment of Patricia Fili-Krushel as the Company's executive vice president, administration, effective July 30. Ms. Fili-Krushel, currently CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of WebMD Health and formerly president of the ABC Television ABC Television may refer to:
Richard Dean Parsons (born April 4, 1948), is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Time Warner. He is also on the board of directors of Citigroup. . In making the announcement, Mr. Parsons said: "We're extremely pleased that Pat Fili-Krushel is joining our senior management team. Throughout her impressive career, Pat has been a proven leader, with a wide range of operational and managerial responsibilities in virtually every area of the media, entertainment and Internet landscape. She brings a high level of expertise and energy to her new position at AOL Time Warner, where she will help ensure that we have the organizational programs and systems, and the people management policies and practices, to reach our goal of becoming the world's most valuable and respected company. We are also aware of the fact that this is, in a sense, a homecoming for Pat, and we're most pleased to welcome her back." Gerald M. Levin Gerald M. "Jerry" Levin (b. 6 May, 1939, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American businessman. He attended Haverford College, where he is a member of the Board of Directors. Levin spent most of his career with Time Inc. , chief executive officer of AOL Time Warner, added: "As a fellow alum of HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy , I'm delighted to welcome Pat Fili-Krushel back to the AOL Time Warner family. She is the perfect choice, working with Dick Parsons, to lead our effort to build a unified, enterprise-wide culture that will support and facilitate both our business objectives and our values." Ms. Fili-Krushel said: "The opportunity to join AOL Time Warner, a one-of-a-kind company, is extraordinary and I'm looking forward to leveraging my experience in both traditional and new media to help integrate and develop the Company's most important asset, its people. In this new role, my focus will be to ensure that AOL Time Warner continues to attract, retain and cultivate the most talented and diverse people; that our colleagues are given the broadest career opportunities; and that all parts of our organization work together to take advantage of the tremendous growth opportunities ahead." Ms. Fili-Krushel has been CEO of WebMD Health since April 2000. In this position, she is responsible for setting the strategic direction for and the oversight of WebMD's consumer portal. From July 1998 to April 2000, Ms. Fili-Krushel was president at ABC Television Network. In this position, she was responsible for all programming and business areas of the ABC Television Network. This included ABC Entertainment ABC Entertainment is a network production company owned by The Walt Disney Company and ABC that created in 1982. It produced shows like America's Funniest Home Videos, America's Funniest People, and H.E.L.P.. Television Group, ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. , ABC Daytime ABC Daytime (ABCD) is a programming block on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The Disney-ABC Television Group named Brian Frons the president of the newly created Daytime, Disney-ABC Television Group in May 2006. , ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Sports and ABC Children's Programming as well as television network sales, affiliate relations, marketing, broadcast operations and engineering. While at ABC, she conceived and orchestrated SoapNet, a 24-hour soap opera cable network. During her tenure, Ms. Fili-Krushel was responsible for improving the ABC Television Network's ranking from #3 to #1 in the ratings. Prior to becoming president of the ABC Television Network, Ms. Fili-Krushel was president, ABC Daytime, where she was responsible for leading ABC's daytime programming schedule to the number one position among women 18-49 years old, and for introducing the daytime talk show "The View." Before joining ABC in 1993, Ms. Fili-Krushel had been with Lifetime Television since 1988 as both group vice president, Hearst/ABC-Viacom Entertainment Services (HAVES), and senior vice president, programming and production, Lifetime Television. Ms. Fili-Krushel joined Lifetime from Home Box Office, Inc., where she had been vice president, business affairs and production. Ms. Fili-Krushel serves on the Board of Directors for the Second Stage Theater, and is a member of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy's Media Task Force. She holds a B.S. degree from St. John's University and an M.B.A. degree from Fordham University. AOL Time Warner (NYSE:AOL) is the world's first Internet-powered media and communications company, whose industry-leading businesses include interactive services, cable systems, publishing, music, networks and filmed entertainment. |
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