Jim Norton

Head of Sales, AOL

Favorite AOL site: AOL Music

With over 20 years in the media business, Jim joined AOL in 2009 and is responsible for sales on all of AOL's owned & operated properties, including sites like The Huffington Post, Engadget, Stylelist and MapQuest. Additionally, he will also lead the sales of all cross platform marketing solutions, including display/Project Devil initiative, video and mobile.

Jim joined AOL in 2009 and was SVP, AOL Advertising's Advance Sales team, which focuses on national and regional advertisers across all categories, as well as new business. He was also VP of Product Sales working with AOL product teams on maximizing their offerings to advertisers, including MapQuest, Patch, AOL Mail, AOL Video and Mobile. He also managed AOL's Search and Sponsored Listings business, and helped launch and manage AOL's self service advertising platform, Ad Portal.

Previous to AOL, Jim spent 3 years at Google most recently as National Sales Manager for Google's Agency Activation team, which he launched and built from a small regional team into a national team covering over 180 national advertising agencies. His team sold and serviced the full suite of Google advertising products including search, display, YouTube and Google's TV and Radio products. Jim began his Google career as Senior Account Executive on the National Tech BtoB Team servicing many of the leading global tech marketers.

Prior to his digital career, Jim worked in a variety of traditional media sales and marketing roles, including 4 years as Sales Manager at Tribune Broadcasting's WLVI-TV (Boston's WB), radio ad sales at Kiss 108FM and variety of brand marketing roles at Miller Brewing Company.

A lifelong Bostonian, Jim is a 'Triple Eagle', having graduated from BC High, Boston College (BA, Communications) and BC's  Carroll Graduate School of Business, (MBA, Marketing and Technology). He lives in Cohasset, MA with his wife Katie and 3 sons, Jack, Ryan and Charlie. He spends most of his free time at a Little League Field, hockey rink, hoop court or soccer field while discreetly eyeing his phone for the latest scores of Boston sports teams.