About Me

Jimmy Maymann joined AOL in January 2011, following the $96.7m acquisition of goviral, the branded content distribution company he co-founded in 2005. One week later, AOL announced it had acquired the biggest newspaper on the web, The Huffington Post. Jimmy’s focus within AOL is to take his entrepreneurial skill-base and media know-how to grow the AOL Huffington Post Media Group suite of brands and expand them across International markets, much like he did with the goviral business in Europe. To date, The Huffington Post, has launched in the UK and further plans have been announced for Le Huffington Post in France through a partnership with Le Monde. Prior to goviral, Jimmy ran Neo Ideo, a digital consultancy he launched in 1995 and later sold to the advertising agency Leo Burnett in 2000. Jimmy also served on the board of facial recognition company Polar Rose, which was sold to Apple in January 2010 In his sparetime Jimmy tries to stay in touch with his entrepreneurial side through angel investments in exciting businesses. Jimmy is currently involved in OverWolf (online gaming), GameAnalytics (online gaming), Movellas (social story platform) and Gateway Japan (online retailer / distributor).