- Tatiana Platt
Tatiana Platt is an Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, and co-founder of FameGame.com, a social networking start-up launched in August 2007. She is a former senior executive at
America Online (AOL). She was one of the longest tenured executives at AOL,Fact|date=August 2008 and one of the few female executives at the company.Fact|date=August 2008 Her last position was Senior Vice President, New Media & Programming Ventures (formerly Chief Trust Officer and Senior Vice President of Integrity Assurance). Platt's departure was announced in January 2007.Platt was born in
Annapolis, Maryland , to a French father and second generation Russian mother, and attendedGeorgetown University . She speaks French and Portuguese, as well as Russian. She lives inNew York City and is married to renowned architect,Campion Platt .She is an active philanthropist in Manhattan and is a supporter of Anthony Shriver's
Best Buddies International charity. She founded the Tatiana Simone Foundation in 1999. Her dedication to supporting causes related to people with disabilities was also evident in her work at AOL. Under her leadership, AOL created an Office of Accessibility to ensure AOL products are accessible to people with disabilities in 2000.The early years
Coming to America Online from the
CIA in 1996 as Vice-President of Integrity Assurance, the spook formerly known as Gau was billed by AOL as a cowboy, a strong right hand that would clean up the wild west that then made up AOL. Her frequent and public media appearances touting AOL's security measures were the frequent target of electronic civil disobedience actions by readers of AOL watchdog siteInside-AOL.com , and Platt eventually ended all electronic public appearances. [ [http://www.aolwatch.org/list/0070.html AOL List Archives: The AOL List: Pillaging]Notes
External links
* [http://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/2004-04/substancenstyle/gau.html Tatiana Simone Foundation]
* [http://www.famegame.com Fame Game]
* [http://www.observer.com/2008/style/fame-dame New York Observer]
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