After nine years with AOL, content executive Marty Moe is leaving the company for personal reasons, technology website AllThingsDigital reported on Monday.

Moe's decision comes a few months after Bill Wilson, who devised the US-based internet and media company's content strategy, was replaced by ex-Google executive David Eun.

Moe - senior vice-president for AOL Money & Finance, News & Sports - started the company on its current strategy of producing professional content and presenting it in blog-like settings, along with Wilson.

A memo sent to AOL staffers on Monday said Moe was a driving force behind AOL's move away from aggregating third party content and toward the creation of high quality original content.

The company is looking for a replacement, the memo added.