Before becoming the CEO of AOL, Armstrong presided over Google’s North American and Latin American advertising sales and operations teams. His team provided customers with local partnerships as well as centralized sales and services. They worked with some of the world’s most widely recognized brands and advertising agencies in addition to some of the fastest growing medium-sized companies.

Armstrong joined Google from Snowball.com, where he was vice president of sales and strategic partnerships. Prior to his role at Snowball.com, he served as director of integrated sales & marketing at Starwave’s and Disney’s ABC/ESPN Internet Ventures, working across the companies’ Internet, TV, radio, and print properties. He started his career by co-founding and running a newspaper based in Boston, MA, before joining IDG to launch their first consumer Internet magazine, I-Way.

Armstrong is an investor in Patch and sits on the boards of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the Advertising Council, and the Advertising Research Foundation, and is a trustee at Connecticut College and Lawrence Academy. He is a graduate of Connecticut College, with a double major in economics and sociology.

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Invested in Associated Content. (4/28/09)
Posted 4/28/09 at 3:30pm
Invested in Howcast. (10/08)
Posted 10/5/09 at 12:26pm
Added position as President, The Americas Operation and Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales and Operations at Google.
Posted 7/19/09 at 5:35pm
Added position as Investor at Patch.
Posted 7/19/09 at 5:35pm
Added position as Chairman & CEO at AOL.
Posted 3/12/09 at 2:10pm
Added position as Vice president of sales and strategic partnerships at Snowball.com.
Posted 7/19/09 at 5:35pm
Added position as Board Member at Ladies Who Launch.
Posted 7/19/09 at 5:35pm