Akamai Technologies, Inc. Announces Senior Leadership Changes
November 15, 2021 at 06:58 am EST
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced that Mani Sundaram, currently Akamai's EVP and chief information officer (CIO), has been named EVP & general manager of the Security Technology Group (STG), and that Kate Prouty is being promoted to CIO. These changes are effective December 13, 2021. Rick McConnell, Akamai's president and current general manager for STG, will be leaving Akamai to become CEO of a public company after transitioning responsibilities to Mr. Sundaram. Mr. Sundaram is a 15-year Akamai veteran who currently oversees Akamai's Infosec, IT, and Global Services functions. Mr. Sundaram's current CIO role will be assumed by Kate Prouty. Ms. Prouty has had a distinguished 22-year career at Akamai.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is the world's No. 1 supplier of Internet applications and content distribution acceleration services. The activity is organized primarily around 3 areas:
- content distribution: transmission, storage, and management of data flows, media content, electronic applications, etc.;
- development of applications on Internet sites: applications for recording user visits to sites, research, etc.;
- other: data management, distribution control, application performance measurement, secure content transmission, etc.
At the end of 2023, the group had a platform of more than 350,000 servers interconnected to more than 1,300 Internet access supplier networks worldwide.
The United States account for 51.7% of net sales.
AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 
