birth_place citizenship birth_date residence article_title education name occupation
brooklyn , ny american 2 april 1956 new york , ny marc frons
 brooklyn college marc frons former cio , new york times
marc frons

marc frons -lrb- born april 2 , 1956 -rrb- is the former chief information officer of the new york times and former head of both nytimes.com digital technology and the times 's corporate systems and technology .
from july 2006 to march 2012 , mr. frons served as the chief technology officer of the new york times .
since 2006 , he has overseen technology and product development at nytimes.com while continuing to be involved in broader digital strategy initiatives at the company .
before he joined the times , mr. frons was the chief technology officer for the wall street journal online and other dow jones consumer web sites .
he is credited for the development of map of the market , an innovative financial data visualization interface for smartmoney.com and more recently the latest advancements in the customization algorithms that introduce readers to content based on their archived readings as well as the influx of interactivity within a media rich foundation of nytimes.com .
