John Reid-Dodick
As Chief People Officer, John Reid-Dodick joined AOL in 2011 from Thomson Reuters Markets, where he served as Global Head of Human Resources from 2008 to 2011 and Global Head of Human Resources, Reuters Business Division and Americas Human Resources from 2005 to 2008. Following the Thomson acquisition of Reuters in 2008, John led the people and culture integration of Reuters and Thomson Financial. Previously, he held a range of senior HR roles at Reuters Group PLC in New York and London.
An expert in leadership, talent, and organizational culture and change, John has led a number of initiatives that have received industry awards of excellence and been featured as best practice in publications such as Stephen Bungay, The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results (2011); Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn, Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization’s Growth Engine (2006); and Simon Barrow and Richard Moseley, The Employer Brand (2005).
A lawyer by training, John joined Reuters in 1995 as Corporate Counsel and served as General Counsel from 1997 to 2000 and Executive Vice President
for Corporate Affairs from 2000 to 2001. Prior to Reuters, he was an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and a law clerk for the Honorable Robert W. Sweet of the Southern District of New York. John graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Managing Editor
of the Harvard Law Review, and he holds a master’s degree in politics from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in political studies.
