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Akamai Appoints Jan Hier-King of Charles Schwab & Company to Its Board of Advisors
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, August 18, 1999 -- Akamai Technologies, which operates a global Internet content delivery service that speeds up Web performance, announced today the appointment of Jan Hier-King to its Board of Advisors. Currently, Charles Schwab & Co.'s enterprise technology head of electronic brokerage, Ms. Hier-King joins Akamai's advisory board consisting of influential members of the Internet, networking, science and entertainment industries.
As the head of Enterprise Technology of Charles Schwab's Electronic Brokerage, Jan Hier-King is responsible for the success of www.schwab.com, the leading online brokerage Web site, serving over 2.8 million online accounts holding $251 billion in customer assets. She also led the initial start-up of the technology organization supporting the Institutional business at Schwab. This group engineered the development of online trading and quotes service via Schwab's brokerage systems.
Commented Hier-King, "The success of the Internet as a medium for financial services and eCommerce depends on making the Web a high-performing medium. Akamai is addressing this critical need by delivering Web content fast and reliably on a global scale. By placing content close to Internet users around the world and rerouting around Internet congestion in real-time, users are ensured of a satisfying Web experience."
Formed in May of this year, Akamai's advisory board provides counsel and direction on developing technology standards, business strategy, and products and services that continue to push the Internet, and delivery of Web content, to new levels of performance and reliability.
"We are excited to welcome Jan to our advisory board and look forward to learning from her depth of experience managing world-class technology in online financial services," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "Jan's wisdom and customer-orientation will help Akamai advance the Internet's growth, performance and reliability, as well as aid in the development of Akamai's business strategy."
Working together to examine and recommend solutions for the development and performance issues facing the Internet, Ms. Hier-King joins other prestigious Akamai Board of Advisors members, including:
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, August 18, 1999 -- Akamai Technologies, which operates a global Internet content delivery service that speeds up Web performance, announced today the appointment of Jan Hier-King to its Board of Advisors. Currently, Charles Schwab & Co.'s enterprise technology head of electronic brokerage, Ms. Hier-King joins Akamai's advisory board consisting of influential members of the Internet, networking, science and entertainment industries.
As the head of Enterprise Technology of Charles Schwab's Electronic Brokerage, Jan Hier-King is responsible for the success of www.schwab.com, the leading online brokerage Web site, serving over 2.8 million online accounts holding $251 billion in customer assets. She also led the initial start-up of the technology organization supporting the Institutional business at Schwab. This group engineered the development of online trading and quotes service via Schwab's brokerage systems.
Commented Hier-King, "The success of the Internet as a medium for financial services and eCommerce depends on making the Web a high-performing medium. Akamai is addressing this critical need by delivering Web content fast and reliably on a global scale. By placing content close to Internet users around the world and rerouting around Internet congestion in real-time, users are ensured of a satisfying Web experience."
Formed in May of this year, Akamai's advisory board provides counsel and direction on developing technology standards, business strategy, and products and services that continue to push the Internet, and delivery of Web content, to new levels of performance and reliability.
"We are excited to welcome Jan to our advisory board and look forward to learning from her depth of experience managing world-class technology in online financial services," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "Jan's wisdom and customer-orientation will help Akamai advance the Internet's growth, performance and reliability, as well as aid in the development of Akamai's business strategy."
Working together to examine and recommend solutions for the development and performance issues facing the Internet, Ms. Hier-King joins other prestigious Akamai Board of Advisors members, including:
- Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium;
- Gil Friesen, director of The Digital Entertainment Network, and a media pioneer;
- Sam Gassel, chief systems engineer, CNN Internet Technologies;
- Ron Graham, chief scientist emeritus, AT&T Labs, and treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences;
- Amos Hostetter, founder of Continental Cablevision;
- Dan Smith, CEO of Sycamore Networks;
- Peter Solvik, senior vice president and CIO of Cisco Systems;
- Ralph Terkowitz, CIO of The Washington Post Company.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
