George Vradenburg, exec. vp-global & strategic policy, AOL Time W...
George Vradenburg, exec. vp-global & strategic policy, AOL Time Warner, is stepping down from his high-profile post to become full-time adviser to company. Vradenburg, who in more than 4 years at AOL bolstered company’s Washington lobbying efforts, spearheaded company’s…
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original drive for open access mandates on cable operators and shepherded its takeover of Time Warner through FTC and FCC, said he would shift his focus to “Internet building activities beyond policy organization,” including elimination of digital divide and other technology and education issues. In particular, he said, he will concentrate on “the intersection of the Internet and health care” and extension of Internet benefits to developing nations. “We're seeing the existing inequalities being exacerbated,” he said. “That’s not productive.” Vradenburg, 2nd senior AOL Time Warner executive to take new post since companies completed merger in Jan., said switch occurred after several months of conversations with company Chmn. Steve Case. “It’s been a product of discussion,” he said. “It was something that Steve felt was good for the company and I felt was good for me.” AOL Time Warner announced late Thurs. that Vradenburg would be replaced by Robert Kimmitt, now pres.-vice chmn. of Commerce One and former U.S. ambassador to Germany, effective July 1. Company said Kimmitt, like Vradenburg, will oversee its worldwide public policy initiatives. Kimmitt, also former law partner in Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and ex-managing dir. of Lehman Bros., will report to Case and be member of company’s Exec. Committee. Vradenburg is former executive of both CBS and Fox.