According to sources close to the situation, AOL has hired Alex Gounares as its CTO. Gounares's departure was announced internally at Microsoft today, where he is corporate VP of Advertising Research and Development and CTO for the software giant's Online Services division..Microsoft Exec Alex Gounares Takes CTO Job at AOL | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD All Things Digital Skip to main content. More BigCharts Virtual Stock Exchange WSJ Asia WSJ Europe WSJ Americas WSJ Chinese SEARCH Digital Daily Weekend Update 05.08.10–Boys of Summer Edition Digital Daily 2010: Another "Year of The Smartphone" Digital Daily Nokia's New Focus Is Mobile Services? Sure It's Not Lawsuits Against Apple? Digital Daily Good Luck With That Alleged Antitrust Complaint Against Apple, Adobe… MediaMemo Saturday Night Live Rewards Facebook Fans With Betty White MediaMemo Why the Cable Guys Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the FCC MediaMemo Another E-Reader? Really? Meet Borders' "Kobo." MediaMemo Toyota Cracks the Viral Video Code: Here's Your Swagger Wagon MediaMemo Are You Ready, Foursquare? Here Comes Facebook. News, analysis and opinion about the digital revolution. Home Kara Swisher Walt Mossberg Digital Daily MediaMemo Voices Video D8 Topics Jobs BoomTownThe BoomTown FeedFollow Kara on Twitter Exclusive: AOL Hires Microsoft Exec Alex Gounares as CTO by Kara Swisher Posted on May 7, 2010 at 12:08 PM PT Print According to sources close to the situation, AOL has hired Alex Gounares (pictured here) as its CTO. Gounaress departure was announced internally at Microsoft (MSFT) today, where he is corporate VP of Advertising Research and Development and CTO for the software giants Online Services division. According to his bio at Microsoft, Gounares had previously been corporate vice president for Corporate Strategy, where he was responsible for helping set the overall strategic direction for the company. Before that, Gounares spent three years as the technology assistant to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, and he also was responsi...
