Topic summary
AOL Time Warner
Extracted from the Wikipedia article WarnerMedia.
Formation
AOL Time Warner was supposed to be a merger of equals with top executives from both sides. Gerald Levin, who had served as chairman and CEO of Time Warner Entertainment, was CEO of the new company. AOL co-founder Steve Case served as executive chairman of the board of directors, Robert W. Pittman (president and COO of AOL) and Dick Parsons (president of Time Warner) served as co-chief operating officers, and J. Michael Kelly (the CFO from AOL) became the chief financial officer.