Updated: Sept. 16, 2010

As corporate vice president of MSN, Ted Cahall leads one of the largest online media networks in the world, with over 450 million unique users monthly. He is responsible for the engineering, editorial, content strategy and media efforts for MSN worldwide.

Prior to joining Microsoft in September of 2010, Cahall was the chief technology officer at AOL. He led all of AOL's engineering and operations, managing hundreds of Web properties and applications and over 40,000 servers with a staff of 3,700 in five countries. Prior to his CTO role, the majority of Cahall's time at AOL was spent as the executive vice president of the Platforms and later president of the Products business units responsible for AOL Search, MapQuest, Commerce channels, publishing, and more recently video search, e-mail and mobile.

Prior to AOL, Cahall was chief operating officer and executive vice president of United Online's Internet media properties including photo sharing, hosting services, and several domestic and international social networking sites including Seattle-based Classmates.com.

Cahall was the chief technology officer at CNET for six years beginning in January 2000. In addition to managing the architecture, data centers, infrastructure, and 30+ Web properties at CNET, he invented the concept of the SOLR Search container for the Lucene search library that powers many smaller Web companies' site search today.

In the mid to late 90s, Cahall spent six years at Bank of America, first as the vice president of enterprise architecture and standards, and more recently as the vice president of engineering for their Internet home banking division.

Prior to banking, Cahall worked in two start-up technology companies in the network and systems management space. Prior to that he spent six years at AT&T Bell Labs where he wrote device drivers and software distribution systems and was awarded a patent for terminal system performance analysis.

Outside of work Cahall is a nationally licensed SCCA Club Racing driver and has competed on internationally known tracks including Road America, Watkins Glen, the Poconos and Virginia International Raceway.

Cahall holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed non-degree, executive MBA studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in the Seattle area.

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