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- Who better than David Heenan to pen a book about leaders who have faced dark times and come out with their star still shining? His many accomplishments, including his current role as a trustee of the Estate of James Campbell, include taking the University of Hawai'i College of Business helm in the '70s ? at just 35 years old ? and devising its now transformational focus on international business ...
- It takes a while to get over a bad marriage, but Time Warner appears to be healing. The historic media conglomerate had to endure an unhappy anniversary last month, 10 years since its spectacularly ill-fated decision to merge with internet start-up AOL. Everyone else in the media took the opportunity to reprint the ugly wedding photo of Time Warner boss Jerry Levin and AOL's Steve Case embracing ...
- STB Lifesaving Technologies® announced today the hiring of Ron Peele as President, to lead its transition from an R&D stage initiative, to a commercial business.  Mr. Peele has spent the past 25 years building companies as both an investor and operating executive.  He joins STB® from Revolution Health, where he was a founding investor and CFO, working closely with Steve Case from its ...
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- NEW YORK (Fortune) -- AOL is back. Should you buy it?The New York-based Internet company is due to report quarterly earnings Wednesday morning for the first time since it regained its independence fro...
- Oakley-based SparkPeople's millions of members and CEO Chris Downie's personal experience helped make SparkPeople.Com's first book a national best-seller.
- CHARLOTTE - The term "Close, but no cigar" could have been coined for this year's Charlotte boys' basketball team, as the Orioles fell to 0-8 with a disappointing 43-38 loss to Marshall (5-6) on Jan. 26.
- Dr. Richard Van Meter and his dance partner Caroline Wheless plan to cha cha their way into the judges? favor during the Dancing for Future Stars competition. Van Meter, a doctor at Riverwood Medical Associates, is one of six contestants in the...
- JANUARY 25, 2010 -- American Express this month completed a $300 million acquisition of online payment service provider Revolution Money, giving the network a new platform from which to explore the growing prepaid product segment of the payments industry.
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| Born | Stephen McConnell Case August 21, 1958 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
| Residence | McLean, Virginia1 |
| Education | Williams College |
| Occupation | • former Chairman & CEO of America Online (AOL) • Chairman & CEO of Revolution LLC • Chairman of the Case Foundation • Chairman of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2) |
| Spouse(s) | • Joanne Barker (1985–1996, divorced, 3 children)2 • Jean Villanueva (1998–present) |
| Children | 1 son (Everett), 4 daughters1 |
| Website CaseFoundation.org |
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Stephen McConnell "Steve" Case (born August 21, 1958) is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). He reached his highest profile when he played an instrumental role in AOL's merger with Time Warner in 2000.
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Life and career
Case grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii,3 where he graduated from the private Punahou School3 (Class of 1976) and attended Central Union Church.
Case graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1980 with a degree in political science. For the next two years he worked as an assistant brands manager Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1982 he joined Pizza Hut Inc. in Wichita, Kansas, serving as manager of new pizza marketing.3
In January 1983, his older brother Dan, an investment banker, introduced him to Bill von Meister, CEO of Control Video Corporation. The company was marketing a service called Gameline for the Atari 2600 video game console that allowed users to download games via a phone line and modem. After that meeting, von Meister hired Case as a marketing consultant.34 Later that year, the company nearly went bankrupt and one of its investors, Frank Caufield, had his friend Jim Kimsey brought in as a manufacturing consultant. Case later joined the company as a full-time marketing employee.
In 1985, Case helped found Quantum Computer Services, an online services company, from the remnants of Control Video. Kimsey became CEO of the newly renamed Quantum Computer Services and promoted Case to vice president of marketing, and in 1987 promoted him again to executive vice president. Kimsey groomed Case to become chairman and CEO when Kimsey retired, and the transition formally took place in 1991 (CEO) and 1995 (chairman).
As part of the changes that gave birth to Quantum, Case changed the company's strategy, creating an online service called Quantum Link (Q-Link for short) for the Commodore 64 in 1985 with programmer (and AOL co-founder) Marc Seriff. In 1988, Quantum began offering the AppleLink online service for Apple and PC-Link for IBM compatible computers. In 1991 he changed the company name to America Online and merged the Apple and PC services under the AOL name; the new service reached 1 million subscribers by 1994, and Q-Link was terminated October 31 of that year.
Among many initiatives in the early years of AOL, Case personally championed many innovative online interactive titles and games, including graphical chat environments Habitat (1986) and Club Caribe (1989), the first online interactive fiction series QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed (1988), Quantum Space, the first fully automated Play by email game (1989), and the original Dungeons & Dragons title Neverwinter Nights, the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) to depict the adventure with graphics instead of text (1991).
After a decade of quick growth, AOL merged with media giant Time Warner. The $164 billion merger was completed in January 2000 but quickly ran into trouble as part of the dot-com recession, compounded by accounting scandals. Case announced his resignation as chairman in January 2003, although remained on the company's board of directors for almost three more years.
The failure of the AOL-Time Warner merger is the subject of a book by Nina Munk entitled Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner (2005). A photo of Case and Time Warner's Jerry Levin embracing at the announcement of the merger appears on the cover.
In 2005, Case wrote in the The Washington Post that "It's now my view that it would be best to 'undo' the merger by splitting Time Warner into several independent companies and allowing AOL to set off on its own path."5
Case resigned from the Time-Warner board of directors in October 2005, to spend more time working on Revolution LLC, a holding company he founded in April 2005. He remains (as of December 2005) one of Time-Warner's largest individual shareholders. He is also chairman of the Case Foundation, which he and his wife Jean Case created in 1997.
Mr. Case was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2009.
Investments
Revolution holds majority stakes in several healthcare companies (including Revolution Health Group) and resort firms. In August 2005 it purchased a controlling interest in Flexcar.
On November 18th, 2009 American Express announced plans to purchase Revolution Money, a division of Revolution LLC, for $300 Million.6
In 2007 Case along with Ted Leonsis on February 27, 2007 joined in a $5.5-million investment in widget syndication specialist Clearspring Technologies.
Case owns nearly half of Hawaii-based Maui Land and Pineapple Co. He also controls tens of thousands of acres of land in Hawaii.7
Family
His father, Daniel H. Case, is the founding partner of the Hawaiian law firm of Case Lombardi & Pettit.8 His mother Carol was an elementary school teacher. His parents had three other children: Carin, Dan and Jeff.9 His brother Dan died from brain cancer at the age of 44 in June 2002.10
Steve Case is a cousin of Ed Case, who served as a Hawaii congressman11 from 2002 through 2007.
In 1985, Case married Joanne Barker whom he had met while attending Williams College. The couple had three children and divorced in 1996.122 Two years later, in 1998, he married former AOL executive Jean Villanueva in a ceremony officiated by the Rev. Billy Graham.13 They and their four daughters from previous marriages reside in McLean, Virginia, in a mansion that was the childhood home of Jacqueline Bouvier.1
Case donated ten million dollars to Punahou School for a new junior high school building named after his parents.
References
- ^ a b c Eisler, Kim (2007-02-01). "Second Coming". The Washingtonian. http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/3250.html.
- ^ a b Munk, Nina (January 2003). "Steve Case's Last Stand". Vanity Fair. http://www.docengines.com/ArticleFileMain.asp?Instance=1021&ID=5665FD104D764E418BE872C4236D5DEC. "In 1985 he married Joanne Barker at a church in her hometown of Rumson, New Jersey. They'd met at Williams, where Barker, a student at Smith College, had spent a year. She became a schoolteacher. They had three children." Also available at [1].
- ^ a b c d Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg News (2006-08-01). "Steve Case immerses himself in life after AOL". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/01/business/story03.html.
- ^ Ashby, Ruth. "Page 17". Steve Case: America Online Pioneer. Brookfield, Conn.: Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 0761326553. http://books.google.com/books?id=TV4bEYv2MGAC&pg=PA17&sig=7tXbgMiXjRUIu-DX0qt7a7_AlZo. "His brother Dan introduced him to ... Bill Von Meister"
- ^ "AOL founder calls for breakup of Time Warner". Bloomberg via Seattle Post-Intelligencer (nwsource.com). December 13, 2005. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/251800_aol13.html. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ [2]
- ^ AOL co-founder having 'fun' in healthcare, resort venture - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
- ^ Daniel H. Case bio & photo at Case Lombardi & Pettit
- ^ Munk, Nina. "Page 72". Fools Rush in: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0060540354. http://books.google.com/books?id=TALGwoFoC9wC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&ots=od-HekldsD&sig=dVfpI5JJPkXgysFa_WjlpPt1zGY.
- ^ "Investment banker Daniel H. Case, Jr. dies of cancer at 44". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 2002-06-27. http://starbulletin.com/2002/06/27/news/story10.html.
- ^ Steve Case decides to resign from AOL Time Warner - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
- ^ Ashby, Ruth. "Page 24". Steve Case: America Online Pioneer. Brookfield, Conn.: Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 0761326553. http://books.google.com/books?id=TV4bEYv2MGAC&pg=PA24&sig=CE7JLLCqrlEYqbtWmPGvNiYphrs. "He had married his college girlfriend, Joanne, in 1985"
- ^ "Digits: "You've got married"". Wall Street Journal. 1998-07-09. Archived from the original on 1998-07-09. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Digits%3A+Steve+Case+Jean+Villanueva+married&btnG=Search+Archives&oe=utf-8&um=1&hl=en&ie=UTF-8. "Steve Case ... has tied the knot with companion Jean Villanueva ... the top public-relations official at AOL until she left the company in 1996. Officiating at the small ceremony was the Rev. Billy Graham ... The previous marriages of Mr. Case and Ms. Villanueva ended in divorce."
Other sources
- "The Online World of Steve Case". Business Week. 1996-04-15. http://www.businessweek.com/1996/16/b34711.htm.
- Klein, Alec. Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-5984-X.
- Interview detailing Case's support for early games, and effects of explosive growth
External links
- Revolution LLC
- Revolution Health
- Steve Case discusses his move into health care
- The Case Foundation
- Megamerger Masters, a transcript of a January 2000 interview of Case and Gerald Levin, from the PBS website
- Who Invented AOL
- Steve Case News
- Steve Case on Twitter
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