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Who's Who
1998 Annual Report
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 17 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. Under Chairman and CEO Steve Case and Chief Operating Officer Bob Pittman, America Online -- the world's first $2-billion multi-brand new media company -- has taken a leadership role in developing the new interactive medium and will continue to do so into the future.
Interactive Services Group
The Interactive Services Group operates the AOL and CompuServe services and their related brand and product extensions; Netscape Netcenter; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers. This group also will include broadband development, AOL Devices like AOL-TV, and Integrity Assurance.
-- Barry Schuler is President of the Interactive Services Group. Mayo Stuntz, Jr., serves as Chief Operating Officer of this group, reporting to Barry.
-- Jonathan Sacks is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the AOL service, and Audrey Weil is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the CompuServe service.
Three Netscape executives - James E. Martin, John Paul, and Lori Mirek - have key roles within the Interactive Services Group.
-- James heads up Netcenter as Senior Vice President and General Manager, and he is responsible for the future growth and strategy of Netcenter, including overseeing content programming, product and service development, operations, sales and marketing.
-- John is Senior Vice President of the new AOL Products unit, which rapidly delivers high-quality, world-class products, features and functionality across all branded services and properties.
-- And Lori is Vice President and General Manager of Netscape Business Solutions. This new unit focuses on selling AOL and Netscape products and daytime access to our business partners and to other companies.
-- Also in this group are David Gang, Senior Vice President for Strategic Development, Lynne Crawford, Senior Vice President of the Group's Business Planning & Operations, Anne Borsch, Vice President of AOL Devices, and Tatiana Gau, Vice President of Integrity Assurance.
Interactive Properties
The Interactive Properties Group's mission is to continue to seek out opportunities to build or acquire branded properties that operate across multiple services or platforms. It oversees ICQ, Digital City, and the Company's interest in DMS.
-- Ted Leonsis is the President of this group.
-- Donn Davis is the group's Chief Operating Officer.
The Netscape Enterprise Group
The Netscape Enterprise Group serves Netscape's enterprise customers and contributes to America Online's part of the alliance with Sun. In combination with dedicated resources from Sun, the Netscape Enterprise Group operates our strategic e-commerce alliance.
-- Our strategic alliance with Sun gives us an opportunity to deliver what no one else can right now: End-to-end solutions - from hardware to software to audiences - to help companies put their businesses online. With nearly every company in the world realizing that they need to develop an Internet operation, the potential for this alliance is huge.
-- This group is headed by: Barry Ariko, Senior Vice President and Steve Savignano, Senior Vice President. Barry is also the Executive Vice President and Deputy General Manager for the alliance.
AOL International
AOL International, headed by Jack Davies, operates the AOL and CompuServe services outside the United States. With more than 3 million members, AOL International is leading the transformation of interactive services into a global mass-market phenomenon. America Online operates Internet online services in ten countries and in five languages.
AOL operates with its joint venture partner Bertelsmann AG the AOL and CompuServe brands in Europe -- making it the leading pan-European Internet online provider with more than 2.5 million members. AOL branded services in Europe are offered in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, with access for Austria, Switzerland and Sweden. CompuServe branded services in Europe are provided in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. AOL also operates AOL Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc.; and in Asia operates a service in Japan with its joint venture partners Mitsui and Nikkei, and recently launched a service in Australia with partner Bertelsmann AG. AOL will launch a Chinese and English language service in Hong Kong with partner China Internet Corporation (CIC) in 1999 and the first of the Latin American services with the Cisneros Group of Companies. AOL also provides dial-up access from more 100 countries around the world via AOL GLOBALnet and AOLnet networks, making it the most portable service in the world.
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