Tim Tuttle is Vice President at AOL and is currently responsible for AOL’s video search technology initiatives.  Tim joined AOL through its December 2005 acquisition of Truveo, Inc., a company he founded and where he served as chief executive officer. As CEO of Truveo, Tim managed the company’s strategic and business direction as well as product development for Truveo’s industry-leading video search engine.

Prior to Truveo, Tim was a founder and chief technology officer of Bang Networks, a company that pioneered streaming technology for real-time web applications. He served as a research staff member at Lucent Bell Laboratories where he oversaw projects in data mining and video-based web applications. He also served as research director at Kenan Systems Corp., where he managed numerous technology research initiatives in the areas of real-time web applications, database systems and networking. Tim has been a member of the research staff at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Lab for Computer Science and MIT Lincoln Laboratory conducting work in the areas of data modeling and high-performance optimization algorithms.

Tim has been widely recognized for his research and entrepreneurship. He received the prestigious MIT TR100 Award and was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the nation's top 100 innovators in 2002. He is a recipient of the Harvard Business School Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship and the Intel Foundation Fellowship. In addition, he has been awarded several patents and has authored 18 technical publications.

Tim earned his masters and doctoral degrees from MIT where he studied at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Computer Science. Tim also earned his undergraduate degree from MIT where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.