Organization Updates for AOL Silicon Valley

In the past few weeks, we've had some organization updates that I know alot of people have discussed in the hallway, but I wanted to address in this blog.

The AOL Pictures team and XDrive team (based in LA) have come together as one team, lead by Robert Blatt. The teams had similar roadmaps (both moving towards "sharing"), and after much discussion the decision was made to combine the teams. Right now, the team is working to understand each others technology, plus working on a combined plan. Lots more to come here. Organizationally, the product, dev and qa teams will work under Roberts leadership.
AOL UnCut Video is under going some updates and transition. The QA work will be centralized in Tucson, under Nancy Earnhearts leadership.
Our Irvine team, lead by Keren Perlmutter and Sharon Perlmutter, has officially joined the AOL Labs team. Keren and Sharon did great work last year, and will continue to lead the efforts moving forward, working for Barry Appelman. Best wishes to this team, and looking forward to seeing a lot more from the team in our products soon!
Brock La Porte has an increased role now, becoming the business and technology lead for Personalization. This includes Product, Business and Technology for Magnet, My AOL, Feeds/Favs and Alerts.

Please come by and chat to me about these - or any other questions you have. I know some of this may appear "un-settling", so please do come by.

Comments

Anonymous said…

Please don't forget to mention Favorites is also under Brock. Thanks.

February 27, 2007 at 10:05 AM

Anonymous said…

what about uncut video, Will?

February 27, 2007 at 3:16 PM

Anonymous said…

Josie - I added that in above...

February 27, 2007 at 3:38 PM

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