CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world’s most trusted resolution for securing and delivering digital experiences, at the moment introduced an organizational realignment that’s meant to place the corporate to turn out to be much more agile in delivering its market-leading options for making the web quick, clever and safe for main enterprises. The objective of those modifications is to facilitate continued robust progress for Akamai’s $1 billion safety enterprise, make it simpler for builders to reap the benefits of the facility of serverless computing on the biggest web edge platform on the earth, and provides prospects simpler entry to Akamai’s full portfolio of options.

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Efficient March 1, Akamai might be anchored by two newly created enterprise teams, Safety Know-how and Edge Know-how, each of which might be supported by a single world gross sales group.

The Safety Know-how Group will unify the corporate’s market-leading safety options for shielding prospects’ net properties, cellular apps and APIs, along with offering infrastructure safety and entry management. Beneath the management of Rick McConnell (at the moment Akamai’s president and normal supervisor, Net Division) as president and normal supervisor, Safety Know-how Group, the group will concentrate on driving core safety enterprise progress and innovation and growth into engaging market adjacencies.
The Edge Know-how Group will convey collectively Akamai’s media supply, net efficiency and edge computing options in addition to Akamai’s Clever Edge Platform, to assist companies ship immersive on-line experiences with efficiency, scale, reliability and ease throughout numerous utility architectures. The group might be led by Adam Karon (at the moment Akamai’s government vp and normal supervisor, Media and Provider Division) as chief working officer and normal supervisor, Edge Know-how Group.
The unified International Gross sales Group will present streamlined entry to the complete breadth of Akamai’s portfolio, as Akamai prospects and prospects have more and more sought to purchase the complete vary of Akamai’s edge supply and safety choices. Beneath the management of PJ Joseph (at the moment Akamai’s senior vp, International Media and Provider Gross sales) as government vp, International Gross sales, the gross sales workforce will concentrate on driving income acceleration, bettering channel partnerships, growing safety product adoption whereas prioritizing flexibility and buyer responsiveness.

The corporate additionally introduced it has re-established the position of chief know-how officer to additional advance its innovation technique. In his new position as chief know-how officer, Dr. Robert Blumofe (at the moment Akamai’s government vp, Platform, and normal supervisor, Enterprise Division) will develop a cohesive innovation technique that positions Akamai to capitalize on progress alternatives in areas comparable to 5G, IoT and different rising applied sciences.

The corporate’s companies group and different company features, together with finance, human assets, authorized and IT, will proceed to assist the group throughout all companies.

Advertising and marketing will proceed to assist income progress and drive Akamai’s management in safety underneath the management of Kim Salem-Jackson (at the moment Akamai’s senior vp, world advertising and marketing and company communications), who will succeed Monique Bonner as chief advertising and marketing officer, in a deliberate transition. Bonner will transfer into an government advisor position, which is able to enable her to spend extra time together with her household whereas nonetheless making certain the success of key advertising and marketing initiatives at the moment underway.

“I wish to thank Monique for her management over the past 4 years, throughout which she efficiently led the transformation of our advertising and marketing group – establishing digital-first advertising and marketing capabilities and a company targeted on accountability and contribution to the enterprise,” mentioned Dr. Tom Leighton, co-founder and chief government officer, Akamai Applied sciences. “I’m excited to welcome Kim and PJ to our government management workforce, and I look ahead to working with all of our leaders of their new roles to drive Akamai’s subsequent part of progress.”

Commenting on the organizational realignment, Leighton added, “Akamai’s tenacious dedication to innovate and adapt to the ever-changing and increasing calls for of digital enterprise for 22 years has helped rework the best way the world operates on-line. In 2020, it turned fairly clear how important the web is to work, commerce, training, leisure and authorities. In 2021 and past, we imagine our collective reliance on the web will enhance additional as extra companies transfer on-line, extra workers work remotely over the long run, and cyberattacks proceed to extend in quantity, frequency and class. With Akamai’s new organizational construction, I’m assured we will extra nimbly assist the dynamic wants of our prospects and companions, and extra successfully capitalize on rising progress alternatives.”

This fall 2020 Earnings Name and Investor Summit

The corporate will talk about the strategic organizational modifications throughout its This fall 2020 earnings name which might be held at the moment, February 9, 2021 at 4:30pm EST. The manager workforce can even develop upon Akamai’s technique at its Investor Summit on Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 8:30am Japanese Time. Particulars for each occasions could be discovered on Akamai’s Investor Relations web page.

About Akamai

Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest corporations. Akamai’s clever edge platform surrounds all the pieces, from the enterprise to the cloud, so prospects and their companies could be quick, sensible, and safe. Prime manufacturers globally depend on Akamai to assist them notice aggressive benefit by means of agile options that stretch the facility of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai retains selections, apps and experiences nearer to customers than anybody – and assaults and threats distant. Akamai’s portfolio of edge safety, net and cellular efficiency, enterprise entry and video supply options is supported by unmatched customer support, analytics and 24/7/365 monitoring. To be taught why the world’s high manufacturers belief Akamai, go to www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter.

Akamai Assertion Beneath the Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Act

This launch incorporates details about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai’s administration that represent forward-looking statements for functions of the protected harbor provisions underneath The Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, together with statements about anticipated future advantages from the introduced organizational modifications. Precise outcomes might differ materially from these indicated by these forward-looking statements because of numerous essential components together with, however not restricted to, failure of modifications to end in the advantages anticipated therefrom (e.g., extra nimble growth processes, improved channel relationships and realization of aggressive benefits); failure of our investments in innovation to generate new options; if developed, lack of market acceptance of such service choices and functionalities or failure of such options to function as anticipated; and different components which can be mentioned within the Firm’s Annual Report on Type 10-Okay, quarterly stories on Type 10-Q, and different paperwork periodically filed with the SEC.

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Gina Sorice
Media Relations
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Tom Barth
Investor Relations
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