Ted Cahall
Four decades building things that matter — close to the metal, at every level of the stack.
Ted Cahall knows scale — organizational, financial, and technological. He managed 3,700 staff at AOL, 1,800 at Digital River, and over 1,000 at Microsoft. He managed a P&L in excess of $1B at both AOL and Microsoft. The MSN home page alone gets over 1B daily page views — and it is just one page in the MSN Network of sites. Ted and his teams at Digital River set record levels for Sales and Availability for the Microsoft store and logged a patent for High Volume Transaction Queuing in Machine Learning in the process.
Before decades in the C-suite, he started his career writing data communications device drivers for Unix in C at AT&T Bell Labs. That is not a metaphor. That is a literal description of where he began — close to the metal, solving real problems, in one of the most demanding engineering environments ever assembled.
