America Online Names Bill Wilson SVP, GM AOL Entertainment.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003 America Online See AOL. , Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, today announced that Bill Wilson has been promoted to the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager of 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. Entertainment, succeeding Kevin Conroy Kevin Conroy (born November 30 1955) is an American actor of stage, screen, and voice, perhaps best known for his portrayal of DC Comics superhero Batman in numerous animated series and features that comprised the DC animated universe. in that role, following Conroy's recent promotion to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , AOL for Broadband. Mr. Wilson will report to Jim Bankoff, Executive Vice President of AOL Brand Operations. Evan Harrison, formerly Executive Director, AOL Music, will fill Wilson's position as Vice President and General Manager, AOL Music and report to Mr. Wilson. Since joining AOL, Mr. Wilson has played a vital role in AOL Music's emergence as the #1 online music destination, with over 15 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month (comScore Media Metrix). Together with the music team, Mr. Wilson built upon AOL Music's groundbreaking, exclusive programming like the award-winning First Listen program, which premiers the most eagerly anticipated songs before anyone else including radio. They created Sessions@AOL, First View, and BroadBAND Rocks!, some of AOL's trademark franchises. In his new role, Mr. Wilson will work to extend those successes, both in the music space and across the spectrum of entertainment. Numerous other entertainment franchises have been established since the fall of 2002. The AOL Television team has created and developed the Morning After exclusive program that has showcased hard-to-get interviews with reality show contestants immediately after each episode as well as specially created promotional webisodes, which extend the content of weekly TV shows. AOL Movies has premiered its latest coup, a feature called Celebrity Candids, exclusive behind-the-scenes photos at awards shows and premieres, most recently Matrix Reloaded and T3, taken by the celebrities themselves using digital cameras supplied by AOL. Radio@AOL has launched its best of breed radio experience for dial-up and broadband users and AOL Entertainment has leveraged content from Time Inc. publications including People, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly to develop online exclusives and broad-ranging online packages around worldwide entertainment events. Mr. Bankoff said: "We are delighted that Bill Wilson, who has been a key part of AOL Entertainment's great success, will take on this leadership role. Overall, we are looking forward to continued innovation in entertainment programming for AOL's dial-up and broadband customers." Before becoming General Manager of AOL Music and Vice President of Programming for AOL Entertainment, Mr. Wilson was Vice President of Marketing, Programming and Promotion for AOL Music, and helped lead the transformation of the company's music offerings into the most popular online destination for music fans and establish the group as a vital partner for the music industry and brand marketers alike. Mr. Wilson came to AOL April of 2001 from BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass Entertainment, where he served as Senior Vice President for Worldwide Marketing and managed the marketing campaigns of some of today's hottest stars, including Dave Matthews
David John Matthews (born January 9 1967) is a South African, now naturalized American, Grammy-winning lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. Band, Santana, Pink and Whitney Houston. He also served as BMG's Vice President for Worldwide Marketing and Vice President of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Marketing. Mr. Wilson began his career at Arista Records “Arista” redirects here. For other uses, see Arista (disambiguation). Arista Records is an American record label that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony BMG, and operates under the RCA Label Group. , where he was the product manager for artists across several genres, including Sarah McLachlan, Notorious BIG and Kenny G. Evan Harrison, formerly Executive Director, AOL Music, has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager, AOL Music and report to Mr. Wilson. About America Online America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AOL Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL). Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. |
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