Jon Brod
President, AOL Ventures and Chief Operating Officer of the Huffington Post Media Group
I am President of AOL Ventures and Chief Operating Officer of the Huffington Post Media Group. I am responsible for the company's global innovation efforts including investing in promising start-ups with exceptional leaders, incubating and supporting employee-originated innovations, and growing recent acquisitions of early-stage companies. I am also responsible for all business matters for the Huffington Post Media Group including distribution, business operations, marketing, analysis, partnership alignment and profitability.
I joined AOL in 2009 through the company's acquisition of community news and information site Patch, which I co-founded and served as CEO. Prior to that, I served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Polar Capital Group; Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Portals Division of InterActiveCorp (IAC); Senior Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee at Ask Jeeves, and was the first employee and Senior Vice President of Operations for Interactive Search Holdings, which was purchased by Ask Jeeves in 2004.
I also spent time in sports, including six years at the NBA in various marketing and operations positions. I established NBA Canada and launched the Raptors and Grizzlies expansion franchises.
I graduated cum laude with a BS in History and Government from Bowdoin College.