Oct. 21, 2018 Parsons was named chief executive of AOL Time Warner in 2002 after the $124-billion merger of the dial-up internet provider and the largest entertainment and media company started to ...

In 1991, Rockefeller’s brother, Nelson, recommended him for a job on the board of Time Warner. Parsons would become president of the company in 1995. He faced a heady challenge at Time Warner ...

His move thrust Time Warner into the entertainment space with properties ... Mr. Parsons was often called in to make peace among the company’s high-maintenance personalities, including Ted ...

Richard Parsons, the executive dubbed “Captain Emergency” for his record of stabilizing ailing companies such as AOL Time Warner, Citigroup Inc. and Dime Savings Bank of New York, has died.

Parsons, a longtime banking executive who took the helm of Time Warner during a troubled time for the communications company and who helped Citigroup navigate the financial crisis, died on ...

Richard Parsons, a former Time Warner CEO who was also instrumental in saving New York's Apollo Theater, died Thursday in Manhattan at 76 ...

But I am competitive.” He was thrust into the media limelight in May 2002 when he took over the chairmanship of AOL Time Warner when the company was in free-fall after one of the most infamous ...

(Time Warner is the former parent company of CNN.) “Dick Parsons was the most brilliant person I’ve ever met — wise, steady, and endlessly insightful,” said Ronald Lauder, one of the heirs ...