PROLEXIC - Key Persons
Aaron Ahola - Chief Legal Officer, EVP, Secretary
Job Titles:
- Corporate Secretary
- Executive Vice President
- General Counsel
Ahola joined Akamai in 2000 and has served in the roles of Assistant General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer. His experience at Akamai has covered securities, mergers and acquisitions, global compliance, litigation management, patent and intellectual property, international regulations, commercial contracting, employment, risk management, and public policy.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, Cloud Technology Group
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- EVP
Job Titles:
- Akamai As a Director
- Founding Partner at Keen Venture Partners LLP
Bernardus (Ben) Verwaayen joined Akamai as a director in November 2013. Having held numerous executive positions at leading telecommunications and technology providers over a span of more than three decades, Verwaayen has served as CEO of BT; International Vice President, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Lucent Technologies; and as President and General Manager of PTT Telecom, a KPN subsidiary in the Netherlands. Verwaayen was most recently CEO of Alcatel-Lucent from 2008 to 2013.
Verwaayen is currently a Founding Partner at Keen Venture Partners LLP and is Chairman of the CBI Energy and Climate Change Board in the UK. He is on the board of directors at Akzo Nobel NV and The World Economic Forum.
Job Titles:
- Investor Relations Analyst
Job Titles:
- Akamai As a Director
- Board Chair and Former President and CEO of Sprint Corporation
Daniel R. Hesse joined Akamai as a director in August 2016. As a veteran telecommunications and internet executive, Hesse served as President and CEO of Sprint Corporation from December 2007 to August 2014.
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer
- EVP
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Tom Leighton co-founded Akamai Technologies in 1998 and served as Akamai's Chief Scientist until he became CEO in 2013. Under Dr. Leighton's leadership, Akamai has evolved from its origins as a content delivery network (CDN) into the world's most distributed cloud platform, with leading solutions for content delivery, cybersecurity, and cloud computing. During his time as CEO, Akamai's revenue has more than doubled, growing from less than $1.4 billion in 2012 to more than $3.6 billion in 2022, while earnings per share nearly tripled. Over the same period, annual revenue from Akamai's security business has grown from less than $25 million to more than $1.5 billion.
Dr. Leighton has been personally committed to increasing the pipeline of students pursuing STEM careers for over 30 years, first as a mathematics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and now through his leadership at Akamai. He is a strong supporter of the Akamai Foundation, which promotes mathematics education, and he oversaw the creation of the Akamai Technical Academy, an innovative program developed in-house, aimed at training diverse non-technical professionals for technical careers. He also supports numerous charitable organizations dedicated to strengthening STEM education and opportunities for K-12 students, including The Center for Excellence in Education, Society for Science (producer of the Regeneron Science Talent Search and Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair), The Mathematical Association of America (sponsor of the Math Olympiad), the Math Competition for Girls, and Girls Who Code.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- EVP
Job Titles:
- CEO of Integrated Media Co
Jonathan F. Miller is currently the CEO of Integrated Media Co., an investment company backed by TPG, a leading private equity firm. He is also an advisor to Advancit Capital, focusing on early-stage companies at the intersection of media, entertainment, and technology.
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer
- EVP
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- Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, of OpenText
Job Titles:
- EVP and General Manager, Security Technology Group
Job Titles:
- Director of Investor Relations
Job Titles:
- VP, Chief of Staff, Office of the CEO
Job Titles:
- Akamai As a Director
- Principal Partner of the CIO Strategy Exchange
Monte E. Ford joined Akamai as a director in June 2013. He currently serves as a Principal Partner at the Chief Information Officer Strategy Exchange, as a Network Partner to Brightwood Capital Advisors, which provides growth capital to growing middle-market businesses, and as an Industry Advisor of Brightwood Capital Advisors, LLC.
Job Titles:
- EVP, Global Sales and Services
Job Titles:
- Head of Investor Relations
Job Titles:
- Akamai As a Director
- Owner and President of Aoinle
Tom Killalea joined Akamai as a director in March 2018. He is a seasoned technology executive with deep expertise in the areas of security, digital innovation, and customer experience.
Killalea is the Owner and President of Aoinle, LLC, a consulting firm that he founded in 2014. From 1998 to 2014, Killalea served in various leadership roles at Amazon.com, Inc., most recently as its Vice President of Technology for the Kindle Content Ecosystem from 2008 to 2014. Previously, he served as its Vice President of Infrastructure and Distributed Systems from 2003 to 2008 and prior to that as Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Security.
William (Bill) R. Wagner is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of GoTo (formerly LogMeIn, Inc.), one of the world's top SaaS companies, with more than 2 million customers and over $1 billion in annual revenue prior to its transition in 2020 from a publicly traded company to being privately held. He joined the company as LogMeIn's first Chief Operating Officer and played a pivotal role positioning the company as a leader in the market while growing its top line by more than 500%.