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Michael M. Connors
President Emeritus, AOL Technologies
America Online, Inc.
Michael M. Connors was recently appointed to the AOL Foundation's Board of Directors and named President Emeritus, AOL Technologies. Connors, who was President, of AOL Technologies, is stepping aside after building AOL's world-Class technology infrastructure and organization.
The AOL Foundation was created last year to help pioneer the development of strategies and programs that leverage the power of this new medium to improve the lives of families and children, and empower the disadvantaged.
*********As President Emeritus of AOL Technologies, Mr. Connors will work with AOL's senior management in identifying and developing emerging technologies in the global interactive industry to enhance the Company's offering of services and products.
Since his appointment as the head of AOL Technologies six years ago, Mr. Connors and his team were responsible for the maintenance and development of the core technologies and operational resources that established America Online as the world leader in interactive services and content.
Under Mr. Connors' leadership, AOL Technologies created and grew AOLnet, the world's largest dial-up network as well as the Company's infrastructure for member services and business systems, scaled the system from 1,800 to today's nearly 800,000 simultaneous users, and developed the recently launched AOL 4.0 software that has earned widespread acclaim from reviewers and members alike.
Mr. Connors's team was responsible for the creation of the successful technological platforms for AOL Instant Messenger and Buddy List, AOL.COM, and AOL NetFind. In addition, they managed smooth integration of the technologies and personnel from CompuServe, ICQ, NetChannel and other acquisitions into the AOL Technologies team.
Mr. Connors joined America Online in October 1992 as Senior Vice President, Technology and Operations. Prior to joining the Company, he was employed for 25 years by IBM where he held executive positions in marketing, development, manufacturing, planning and finance, information systems and research. In his final IBM position as director of communications and computing systems, he was responsible for worldwide operational support of IBM research; for development of communications products with more than $100 million in life-of-product revenue; and for a consulting practice with some $10 million annual revenue.
Mr. Connors was educated at Stanford University where he received his BS in Industrial Engineering, an MS in Statistics, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics. He has attended executive development programs in Finance and Information Systems at Harvard University, and is the author of a book, several chapters and a dozen technical papers on mathematical control theory. He has been a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Business, UCLA.
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