Akamai Elects Leo Hindery, Jr. to its Board of Directors

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Telecommunications pioneer joins the Akamai Board

Cambridge, MA - September 18, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, today announced the election of Leo J. Hindery, Jr. to its Board of Directors. Hindery has an extensive background in the telecommunications industry, including roles most recently as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GlobalCenter, Inc. and President and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Broadband. He is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of "The YES Network", a new regional sports network formed around the broadcast rights of the New York Yankees, the New Jersey Nets and the New Jersey Devils, which will launch in March 2002 as a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week premier sports and entertainment network.

"We are excited to welcome Leo to our Board of Directors and look forward to benefiting from his managerial and telecommunications industry expertise," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai. "Leo will add tremendous depth to our board and given his vast experience in building successful companies, we are eager to gain his insight and contribution."

Mr. Hindery commented, "Akamai is on the forefront of changing the technological landscape. Distributed computing on the Internet is the next wave and Akamai is leading the charge. I am excited to lend my experience to such an incredibly vibrant company."

While at AT&T Broadband, Mr. Hindery oversaw all of AT&T's domestic video, local telephony and data services operations. AT&T Broadband was formed out of the 1999 merger between AT&T and Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), then the world's largest cable television distribution and programming entity, of which Hindery was President since February of 1997. AT&T Broadband is now the country's largest provider of broadband services.

Along with his business accomplishments, Mr. Hindery has been the recipient of a multitude of awards, including an award for International Cable Executive of the Year in 1998. Also in 1998, Hindery received additional awards, including the Foundation Award of the International Radio & Television Society and the Executive Achievement Award of the National Association of Minorities in Cable. In 1999, Hindery was named cable television Operator of the Year and received from the National Cable Television Association its Distinguished Vanguard Award for Leadership. Also in 1999, Hindery was named by "Business Week" as one of the "Top 25 Executives of the Year".

Along with being a Director on Akamai's board, Mr. Hindery is also a member of the Board of Directors of GT Group Telecom Inc. and TD Waterhouse Group. Hindery is Vice Chairman of the Museum of Television & Radio; a Director of the Daniels Fund, the Library of Congress Trust Fund and Teach for America; and a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council.

Mr. Hindery is a graduate of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he earned a master of business administration degree. His undergraduate work was done at Seattle University, where he graduated with honors.

Mr. Hindery joins Akamai's Board of Directors including George Conrades, chairman and CEO, Akamai; Art Bilger, vice-chairman; Tom Leighton, chief scientist, Akamai; Todd Dagres, general partner, Battery Ventures; and recently-elected members including William Halter, former acting commissioner of Social Security; and Ronald L. Graham, the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Endowed Chair of Computer and Information Science at the University of California at San Diego.

About Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 11,600 servers within over 820 networks in 62 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better Internet^SM, visit www.akamai.com.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.