Executive Officers
Paul Sagan, President and Chief Executive Officer
George Conrades, Executive Chairman
Tom Leighton, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
J.D. Sherman, Chief Financial Officer
Robert Hughes, Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Services & Marketing
Chris Schoettle, Executive Vice President of Products
Mike Afergan, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President
Melanie Haratunian, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary
Harald Prokop, Senior Vice President of Engineering
Robert Blumofe, Senior Vice President of Networks and Operations
Debra Canner, Senior Vice President of Human Resources
Corporate Headquarters
8 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
617 444 3000
Fax: 617 444 3001
Web site: www.akamai.com
Year Incorporated
August 1998
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is Publicly Traded: (NASDAQ: AKAM)
Revenue
2008 annual revenue of $790.9 million, up 24 percent year-over-year
Current Employees
1,600+ (600 within Massachusetts)
Network Deployment
Akamai has the most pervasive platform for content delivery and application acceleration - 48,000 servers in 70 countries within nearly 1,000 networks.
Product Portfolio
DIGITAL ASSET SOLUTIONS
To enable profitable online businesses and superior media experiences for our customers by providing solutions to manage, store and deliver exceptional digital media experiences to consumers across a wide range of platforms/devices around the world; enable security, control, syndication and monetization of assets; and provide business insight through detailed analytics and reporting tools.
Akamai Media Delivery
Helps media providers deliver and monetize media assets quickly and effectively
Akamai Stream OS
A single point of control for producing, publishing, and delivering rich media, and essential reporting tools to effectively support online business models
Electronic Software Delivery
Delivers any type of software over the Internet effectively and reliably
DYNAMIC SITE SOLUTIONS
To speed up rich interactive content and accelerate all consumer-driven transactions.
Dynamic Site Accelerator
Ensures high performance and reliability of dynamically-rendered, personalized Web sites
Dynamic Site Accelerator Enterprise
Handles the most complex Web sites - increasing scale, reach, and performance rapidly without added infrastructure
APPLICATION PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS
Akamai enables the public Internet to be the platform for accelerating any critical enterprise application to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Web Application Accelerator
Improves performance and reliability of Web-based applications
IP Application Accelerator
Provides optimized architecture for delivering all classes of IP-based applications
ADVERTISING DECISION SOLUTIONS
To enable more relevant online advertising.
Did You Know?
Akamai is Trusted:
- One out of every five Global 500® companies trusts Akamai. (List compiled by Fortune Magazine)
- The top Media & Entertainment companies trust Akamai.
- 9 of the top 10 largest auto manufacturers trust Akamai.
- 85 of the top 100 online U.S. retailers trust Akamai. (Source: Internet Retailer Magazine)
- All branches of the U.S. military trust Akamai.
- More than 150 of the world's leading news portals trust Akamai
- The Top 3 U.S. Wireless Companies Trust Akamai
- 6 of the top 7 Computer Manufacturers Trust Akamai
- 4 of the top 5 Advertising Delivery Services Trust Akamai
- 9 of the top 10 Anti-Virus Companies Trust Akamai
- 4 of the top 5 Online Auction Companies Trust Akamai
Akamai is Proven:
- Akamai delivers between 15-20% of all Web traffic.
- Akamai delivers daily Web traffic greater than a Tier-1 ISP, at times reaching more than 2 Terabits per second.
- Akamai delivers hundreds of billions of daily Internet interactions.
- Akamai helps securely enable more than $100 billion in annual e-commerce for its online retail customers (Source: 2006 revenue compiled by Internet Retailer magazine)
- Cathay Pacific Airways increased online bookings and extranet adoption, and saved more than $1,000,000 annually through Akamai’s Web Application Acceleration service
- The top online music stores have sold billions of songs… and counting… delivered via the Akamai platform
Akamai is Innovative:
- Akamai has the most pervasive platform for content delivery and application acceleration - 48,000 servers in 70 countries within nearly 1,000 networks.
- 85% of the world's Internet users are within a single "network hop" of an Akamai server.
- Akamai delivers IBM WebSphere at the edge - the industry's first solution enabling enterprises to consume WebSphere on demand.
- Akamai has led the effort to develop open initiatives, such as Edge Side Includes (www.esi.org).
- Akamai has dozens of issued patents, and over 60 pending.
- Akamai can work with any customer's Web environment, no matter how sophisticated.
| 1-800-Flowers | L'Oréal |
| Adobe | MRO Software |
| All Nippon Airways (ANA) | MTV Networks |
| Analog Devices Inc. | MySpace |
| Apple Computer |
Nintendo |
| AUDI AG | NPR |
| Best Buy | Pacific Sunwear |
| BMW Japan | The Princeton Review, Inc. |
| Cabela's |
Qantas Airways |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | QVC |
| Cathay Pacific Airline | Red Hat Inc. |
| Caterpillar | Rediff.com |
| Clear Channel Online Music & Radio | Reebok International Ltd. |
| Cognos | Reuters |
| Corel Corp. | Ross Simons |
| Department of Defense | Saatchi & Saatchi |
| The Dow Chemical Company | The Seattle Times |
| eBags | Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications |
| Europages | Starz Entertainment Group |
| Federal Emergency Management Agency | Terra Lycos |
| FedEx Corp. | Thomson Financial |
| Food and Drug Administration | Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch |
| Fujitsu | Toyota Motor Sales |
| FUJI TV | Travelocity.com |
| General Motors | TrendMicro |
| Harley-Davidson, Inc. | Turner Sports |
| Hitachi | Urban Outfitters |
| IBM Corp. | U.S. Geological Survey |
| IBS | Victoria's Secret |
| International Hotels Group | XM Satellite Radio |
| J.C. Penney Company, Inc. | Yahoo! |
| Jet Airways | The Yomiuri Shimbun |
| Lands' End Inc. | |
| Logitech |
Corporate Accolades
FORBES 2009 LIST OF "25 FASTEST-GROWING TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES IN AMERICA"
At the beginning of 2009, Akamai was named to this prestigious list. Companies are measured on revenues for the past 5 years, EPS growth, and a long-term consensus profit forecast of at least 10 percent, annualized.
BUSINESS 2.0 RANKS AKAMAI #1 AMONG THE "100 FASTEST-GROWING TECH COMPANIES OF 2007"
Business 2.0 states: "How big is online video and music? Big enough to catapult Akamai to the top spot. Internet traffic is surging, and companies like Apple and MTV Networks rely on the content delivery company's technology to get the digital goods to their customers."
In the same listing, Akamai was #2 in the category of Stock Returns during 2006.
2007 GLOBAL FROST & SULLIVAN AWARD FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE LEADERSHIP
Frost & Sullivan recognized Akamai Technologies for the customer service leadership award in the global content delivery networks market. The Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Service Leadership is bestowed upon the company that has demonstrated excellence in customer service leadership within the industry.
THE BOSTON GLOBE -- GLOBE 100 "COMPANY OF THE YEAR"
Akamai placed number one on The Boston Globe's annual Globe 100 list, ranking the best-performing, Massachusetts-based publicly traded corporations by how well they increased sales, profits, and returns for shareholders during 2005. With total revenue for 2005 of $283.1 million, a 35 percent increase over 2004, Akamai's one-year change in revenue ranked among the top for publicly held companies in Massachusetts. According to the metrics developed by Standard & Poors for The Globe 100, Akamai increased its profit margin 608 percent in 2005, and the Company's 131.7 percent return on average equity was the highest return of any company on The Globe 100 list.
Jeff Young, Director, Corporate Communications
Tel: 617 444 3913
Email: jyoung@akamai.com
Jennifer Donovan, Public Relations Manager
Tel: 650 627 5395
Email: jdonovan@akamai.com
Helen Yang, Public Relations Manager
Tel: 858 404 1436
Email: hyang@akamai.com
