Executive Officers
Paul Sagan, President and Chief Executive Officer
George Conrades, Executive Chairman
Mike Afergan, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President
Robert Blumofe, Senior Vice President of Networks and Operations
Melanie Haratunian, Vice President and General Counsel
Robert Hughes, Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Services & Marketing
Tom Leighton, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Harald Prokop, Senior Vice President of Engineering
Chris Schoettle, Executive Vice President of Site Acceleration
J.D. Sherman, Chief Financial Officer
Robert Wood, Vice President and Chief Development Officer
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
2007 annual revenue of $636.4 million, up 48 percent year-over-year
Current Employees
1,300+ (625 within Massachusetts)
Network Deployment
Akamai has the most pervasive platform for content delivery and application acceleration –
Product Portfolio
DIGITAL ASSET SOLUTIONS
To provide a superior online experience
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
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
To accelerate dynamic applications
Web Application Accelerator
Improves performance and reliability of Web-based applications
IP Application Accelerator
Improves the performance and reliability of any IP-enabled application
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.
- 75 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 10-20% of all Web traffic.
- Akamai delivers daily Web traffic greater than a Tier-1 ISP, at times reaching more than 800 Gigabits per second.
- Akamai delivers hundreds of billions of daily Internet interactions.
- Akamai helps securely enable more than $60 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 –
- 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 20 issued patents, and 65 pending.
- Akamai can work with any customer's Web environment, no matter how sophisticated.
- Akamai serves over 300 Billion requests per day.
| 1-800-Flowers | Logitech |
| Adobe | L'Oréal |
| All Nippon Airways (ANA) | Marks & Spencer |
| Analog Devices Inc. | MRO Software |
| Apple Computer |
MTV Networks |
| AUDI AG | MySpace |
| Best Buy | Nintendo |
| BMW Japan | NPR |
| Cabela's |
Pacific Sunwear |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | The Princeton Review, Inc. |
| Cathay Pacific Airline | Qantas Airways |
| Caterpillar | QVC |
| Clear Channel Online Music & Radio | Red Hat Inc. |
| Cognos | Rediff.com |
| Corel Corp. | Reebok International Ltd. |
| Department of Defense | Reuters |
| The Dow Chemical Company | Ross Simons |
| DYMO Corporation | Saatchi & Saatchi |
| eBags | The Seattle Times |
| Europages | Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. |
| Federal Emergency Management Agency | Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications |
| FedEx Corp. | Starz Entertainment Group |
| Food and Drug Administration | Terra Lycos |
| Fujitsu | Thomson Financial |
| FUJI TV | Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch |
| General Motors | Toyota Motor Sales |
| Harley-Davidson, Inc. | Travelocity.com |
| Hitachi | TrendMicro |
| IBM Corp. | Turner Sports |
| IBS | Urban Outfitters |
| International Hotels Group | U.S. Geological Survey |
| J.C. Penney Company, Inc. | Victoria's Secret |
| Jet Airways | XM Satellite Radio |
| Kiptronic | Yahoo! |
| Lands' End Inc. | The Yomiuri Shimbun |
Corporate Accolades
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.
IBM PARTNERWORLD BEACON AWARDS 2005
Akamai was selected as a Finalist for the IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards in the category of ISV's - Teaming to Win in the Mid-Market with IGS.
COMPUTING AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2004
The Akamai EdgeComputing service was awarded 'Business Software Product of the Year' as part of the "Computing Awards for Excellence 2004," hosted by Computing, a leading IT trade publication in the UK. The Computing Awards for Excellence recognize and reward the very highest standards of individual and collective achievement, and are the most renowned and sought after IT awards in the UK. They are recognized as the benchmark for excellence throughout the computing industry. EdgeComputing was selected from over 100 entrants in the 'Business Software Product of the Year' category and won the award for its creativity, innovation, and ability to solve complex business problems for customers.
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
Joan Powell, Public Relations Sr. Manager
Tel: 650 292 8422
Email: jopowell@akamai.com
Helen Tse, Public Relations Manager
Tel: 858 332-3973
Email: htse@akamai.com
