Bill Wilson

Executive Vice President, Programming

As Executive Vice President of Programming, Bill Wilson is responsible for the consumer experience of AOL.com and all of AOL’s content web sites which include vertical sites in the following categories: Women & Lifestyle, News, Sports, Money & Finance, Music, Movies, TV, Celebrity, Games, Latino, Black Voices and KOL as well as all Weblogs sites including Engadget, AutoBlog, Joystiq and others. Under his leadership, AOL’s content web sites have grown to reach over 55 million unique visitors and over 4 billion page views every month.
 
Wilson joined AOL from BMG Entertainment where he served as Senior Vice President for Worldwide Marketing and managed the marketing campaigns for the world's biggest artists including Outkast, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews Band, Santana, and Whitney Houston. He began his career in entertainment at BMG's most successful record label Arista Records under the leadership of the legendary Clive Davis and was the principal product manager for a variety of artists including Notorious BIG, Sarah McLachlan, Monica, Spiritualized, and Kenny G.

Wilson, who won an Emmy Award in 2006 for AOL's Live 8 program, was named on the Hollywood Reporter’s “Digital Power List” in 2008 which profiles the 50 people most influencing the creation and distribution of content online, Crain's New York Business "40 under Forty" in 2005, Billboard's "Power Players" in Digital Entertainment in 2005, and Hollywood Reporter's "Next Generation" in 2003.

He graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a BA in economics and a BS in business management and earned an MBA with honors in finance and marketing from Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.