CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in content
delivery network (CDN) services, today announced the appointment of
Ashutosh (Ash) Kulkarni as Senior
Vice President & General Manager of the Company's Web
Experience Division.
Mr. Kulkarni will lead the Akamai team focused on technology and
solutions for optimizing the next generation of Web and mobile
experiences across a wide range of device types, browsers and
network connections. Akamai Web Performance solutions are
designed to enable businesses to provide a fast, reliable and
secure experience for consumers accessing their websites and
applications. Mr. Kulkarni will report to Rick McConnell, Akamai's President of Products
& Development. He will be based in Akamai's Santa Clara, California office.
"Ash is an accomplished products executive with very relevant
experience that matches Akamai's vision for making the Internet
fast, reliable, and secure," said McConnell. "We believe that
his track record of success in productizing infrastructure
software, generating go-to-market results, and managing global and
diverse teams, all make Ash an ideal fit for Akamai's innovative
culture."
Prior to Akamai, Mr. Kulkarni served as Senior Vice President
and General Manager of Informatica's Cloud and Internet of
Things (IoT) businesses. He has also held senior VP and GM
roles at Informatica for Data Integration and Data Quality, and for
Informatica's portfolio of emerging technology areas including Big
Data, B2B, Ultra Messaging, Complex Event Processing (CEP), and
Data Replication.
"At its core, Akamai has always been about delivering sustained
value to businesses by optimizing the performance and security of
the end user experience," said Kulkarni. "Today, businesses
are engaging with their customers through rich and dynamic
applications delivered to their end users in every corner of the
world over a variety of networks and on a staggering range of
devices. Akamai has the unique ability to improve the
broadest range of end user experiences of these social, mobile and
business applications through its tremendous technology and
platform advantage. I look forward to joining such a talented
and innovative team."
In addition to Informatica, Mr. Kulkarni also spent several
years at Sun Microsystems in various product management and
development roles where he was responsible for leading Sun's
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative.
Mr. Kulkarni earned his Bachelor of Engineering from the
University of Mumbai; his Master
of Science from the University of Texas at
Austin; and his Master of Business Administration from the
University of California, Berkeley.
About Akamai®
As the global leader
in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, Akamai makes the
Internet fast, reliable and secure for its customers. The company's
advanced web performance, mobile performance, cloud security and
media delivery solutions are revolutionizing how businesses
optimize consumer, enterprise and entertainment experiences for any
device, anywhere. To learn how Akamai solutions and its team of
Internet experts are helping businesses move faster forward,
please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai
on Twitter.
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