Thursday, March 12, 2009
New AOL Chairman and CEO–and About-To-Be-Ex-Googler–Tim Armstrong Speaks!
For a tall man, Tim Armstrong has been on an awful lot of online companies’ short lists.
For a big Web exec job, that is. Indeed, whenever one opens up in the Internet space, the 6-foot 3-inch Google ad sales exec always pops up on it as a possible candidate to lead a variety of digital companies and start-ups.
Finally today–after longtime speculation that Armstrong had long wanted and would eventually leave his post at Google in order to try his hand at being top dog–he took over as chairman and CEO of the once-mighty, but now-not-so-much, AOL.
Armstrong, who will start at AOL on April 7, talked to BoomTown this afternoon about his new job.
