Tim Armstrong

Timothy Ross Armstrong (born November 25, 1965) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid and hip hop/punk rock supergroup the Transplants. Prior to forming Rancid, Armstrong was in the influential ska punk band Operation Ivy. In 1997, along with Brett Gurewitz of the band Bad Religion and owner of Epitaph Records, Armstrong founded Hellcat Records. In 2012, through his website, Armstrong started releasing music that influenced him, along with stripped-down cover songs of his own work under the name Tim Timebomb. He has released at least one song per week since late 2012. Armstrong is also an accomplished and sought-after songwriter for other artists. Armstrong won a Grammy Award for his work with Jimmy Cliff and Pink and he has also worked with Gwen Stefani and Joe Walsh.

Early life

Armstrong was born November 25, 1965 and was raised primarily by his mother. He has two older brothers, Jeff and Greg.

Tim Armstrong (ice hockey)

Timothy S. Armstrong (born May 12, 1967 in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 11 games for his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs in 1988–89, scoring 1 goal.

Personal

His daughter, Hannah Armstrong was part of Canada's National Women's Under-18 Team to a gold medal at the 2010 IIHF World Women's Under-18 Championship in Chicago. As a member of the gold medal-winning squad, a hockey card of her was featured in the Upper Deck 2010 World of Sports card series.

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Tim Armstrong (disambiguation)

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Tim Armstrong (executive)

Timothy M. "Tim" Armstrong (born December 21, 1971) is an American business executive, who has been the CEO and Chairman of AOL Inc since 2009. A Connecticut College graduate in economics and sociology, Armstrong began a career in journalism, before capitalizing on the advertising potential of the Internet and going online. He became known for his online advertising sales in the 1990s, and was appointed as a marketing director for Seattle-based online entertainment-and-news portal Starwave, which was acquired by Disney in 1998. After a stint as vice-president of sales at New York-based news-and-gaming company Snowball in 2000, he was appointed as U.S. sales chief for Google, and became President of Google America's operation for many years. He replaced the outgoing Randy Falco as CEO of AOL on March 12, 2009.

At AOL, Armstrong has been instrumental in bringing about a marked change in the company, propelling them into a market leader in advertising with state-of-the-art technology, and shifting its focus towards digital journalism, at the benefit of local communities. Armstrong is one of cofounders of the local news website Patch Media, which now belongs to AOL. Armstrong's efforts to downsize the company and control costs and turn the company around has been dubbed as "Project Everest" by economic commentators. Under Armstrong, AOL has established Seed, a journalism and engineering system based on the concept that editors can make decisions on what to write about by compiling data and algorithms from leading search engines and websites, and acquired the digital media property The Huffington Post in 2011. In the 2010s, Armstrong has overseen a number of purchases of platforms for AOL, including the technology news portal TechCrunch, Gravity, Adapt.tv and Millennial Media. In May 2015, when Verizon Communications acquired AOL for $4.4 billion, Armstrong remained in his position as CEO.

Tim Armstrong (cricketer)

Timothy John "Tim" Armstrong (born 26 September 1990) is an Australian cricketer currently contracted to the Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League, having previously played at Australian domestic level with New South Wales, the Sydney Thunder, and Western Australia. From Dubbo, New South Wales, Armstrong was from a strong cricketing family, representing New South Wales at under-17 and under-19 level, and going on to represent the Australian under-19 cricket team at both Test and One Day International level. This included the 2010 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, during which Armstrong scored 240 runs to lead Australia's tournament batting averages. Having played several matches as an all-rounder for the New South Wales under-23 side in the Futures League, Armstrong was selected in New South Wales' squad for the 2010–11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash tournament, and played a single match in the tournament, against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

For the inaugural season of the Big Bash League, Armstrong was signed by Sydney Thunder. He played three matches for the team, with a top score of 25 runs against Perth at ANZ Stadium. Although remaining with the Thunder, Armstrong moved to Western Australia midway through the 2011–12 Australian cricket season in an attempt to play regularly at state level. He debuted for the state in the 2011–12 Ryobi One-Day Cup, in a match against New South Wales at the WACA Ground, which remains his only match at List A level. Batting at number six, Armstrong was dismissed for a golden duck whilst batting, but took the wicket of Ben Rohrer in New South Wales' innings, and finished with 1/15 from six overs. Although not offered a state contract by the Western Australian Cricket Association, Armstrong was signed by the Perth Scorchers in July 2012. At grade cricket level, Armstrong plays for the Fremantle District Cricket Club.

Tim Armstrong (politician)

Hubert Thomas "Tim" Armstrong (28 September 1875 – 8 November 1942) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Early life

Armstrong was born in Bulls to the recent Irish immigrants Mary Newcombe and her husband, Martin Armstrong. His father was a blacksmith by trade, but worked as a labourer in New Zealand. His mother was a nurse and washerwoman. Tim Armstrong left school when he was eleven and worked in flax milling and in the bush. In 1895, he started in the mines at Waihi. He married Alice Fox on 7 March 1900 at Paeroa.

One of his sons, Tommy Armstrong, was also a Member of Parliament for Napier for the Labour party.

Political career

Armstrong was elected to the Christchurch City Council from 1919 to 1925, and again from 1927 to 1929.

He was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Christchurch North in the 1919 general election. As a unionist who had spent a year in Lyttelton goal for sedition, he had no chance of being elected in this well off electorate, and the incumbent, Leonard Isitt, was successful.