Curtis Brown
As Chief Technology Officer, Curtis Brown leads all aspects of AOL’s technology strategy, platform development and external technology partnerships. Curtis previously served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of AOL’s global advertising business, Advertising.com, as well as Senior Vice President for AOL Media.
He is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience across a range of media and internet driven businesses and has an extensive background in building and managing large web sites and technical teams. An internet pioneer, Curtis built and launched one of the first music e-commerce sites, CDNow, back in 1995. He has held the title of CTO at Skymall, Oxygen Media, The Princeton Review, CTB/McGraw-Hill and Kaplan Test Prep from 2008 to 2010. Curtis has lectured at Columbia University in the field of Executive Information Technology Management, served as a member of the IT Technology Advisory Board at the New School and the CTO Advisory Council for InfoWorld magazine and is a founding member of the New York City CTO Club.
A New York native, Curtis graduated cum laude from New York University and has additional graduate studies in Psychology.
