AOL Leadership: Nisha Kumar

Nisha Kumar
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AOL LLC, Nisha Kumar oversees all financial operations including financial planning, analysis and reporting as well as tax planning and compliance. She works closely with the senior management team at AOL establishing the company's financial objectives and strategies.

Before she was named to her current position, Kumar was Vice President, Operations, Time Warner Inc., where she worked on a variety of strategic and operational issues across Time Warner’s Internet, cable, networks, filmed entertainment and publishing divisions. Before that, she was Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, during which she executed several cross-border, multibillion-dollar transactions for Time Warner.

Prior to her roles with Time Warner, Kumar worked at AOL, beginning in 2001. She served in the company’s Business Affairs group, working on cross-divisional investments for Time Warner.

Kumar has also served as Vice President, Corporate Development, at Internet company Priceline.com, where she was in charge of structuring and executing the company’s investments, joint ventures and strategic alliances. She also was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where she advised on and executed a variety of merger, acquisition and financing transactions.

Kumar graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and from 1999-2003 served on the junior board of the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Metropolitan New York. Kumar currently serves as a director of the Human Care Charitable Trust, a hospital development in New Delhi, India.