Akamai Technologies Inc.

Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai, joined the company in October 1998. Mr. Sagan was elected to the Akamai Board of Directors in January 2005, and he became CEO in April 2005. He brings to Akamai the experience of leading visionary technology companies and media businesses and a wealth of management experience. Previously, Mr. Sagan served as senior advisor to the World Economic Forum from 1997 to 1998, consulting to the Geneva-based organization on information technology for the world's 1,000 foremost multinational corporations. In 1995, Mr. Sagan was named president and editor of new media at Time Inc., a division of Time Warner, and worked in that role until 1997. Previously, he served as managing editor of Time Warner's News on Demand project and was a senior member of the team responsible for the development of the company's online, cable online, electronic publishing, and Internet publishing activities. He was a founder of Road Runner, the world's first broadband cable modem service, and Pathfinder, one of the Web properties that pioneered Internet advertising. Mr. Sagan joined Time Warner in 1991 to design and launch NY 1 News, the cable news network based in New York City. NY 1 became known for its groundbreaking use of digital video technology and video journalists carrying their own small-format cameras. As a senior vice president of Time Warner Cable, Mr. Sagan participated in the creation of a corporate group that developed and launched similar owned-and-operated cable news channels in other metropolitan areas. Mr. Sagan's career began in broadcast television news. He joined WCBS-TV in 1981 as a news writer and was named news director in 1987 at age 28, the youngest person to hold the position in the network's history. Mr. Sagan, a three-time Emmy Award winner for broadcast journalism, became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow in 1996 by the World Economic Forum. He is a director of Massachusetts-based EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC), and previously served as a director of Dow Jones & Company and Digitas Inc. before they were acquired. Mr. Sagan is a trustee of Northwestern University; a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism; co-chairman of the Medill Board of Advisors; a member of the Dean's Council at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; a member of the advisory board of the Shorenstein Center On the Press, Politics & Public Policy at the Kennedy School; an advisor to the MATCH charter public school in Boston; and a member of the Presidential Advisory Council at the Berklee College of Music.

J.D. Sherman is Akamai's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Sherman joined Akamai in November 2005. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Sherman served as the chief financial executive of IBM's $21 billion Systems and Technology Group. During his 15-year career at IBM, Mr. Sherman held a number of senior executive positions in Finance, including Vice President, Finance and Planning, zSeries Server Division, and Assistant Controller of IBM Corporate Financial Strategy and Budgets. As Vice President, Finance and Planning, for the zSeries Server Division, Mr. Sherman served as financial and business leader for IBM's $5 billion mainframe computer division. During this tenure, he was instrumental in the development and implementation of pricing strategies, and led a worldwide finance and sales operations team responsible for an $800 million expense budget. In the role of Assistant Controller of IBM Corporate Financial Strategy and Budgets, Mr. Sherman developed IBM's long-term financial strategy including revenue/profit growth objectives, investments, and capital requirements. He also served as CFO for CommQuest, a 100%-owned subsidiary in the wireless semiconductor design industry, acquired by IBM in March of 1998 for $200 million. He developed the post-acquisition business plan and led the integration of CommQuest into IBM. Mr. Sherman has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics from Emory University.

Mike Afergan was named Chief Technology Officer of Akamai in October 2005. In addition to serving as CTO, Mike is a Senior Vice President with the company. A veteran of Akamai's distinguished engineering organization, Dr. Afergan joined Akamai in 1999, and has served in various roles within Akamai's Engineering and Product Management departments, including Director of Technology Strategy and Director of Load Balancing and Mapping. In these leadership roles, he was instrumental in helping to drive innovation based on customer requirements—working on a variety of Akamai's products and directly with many of Akamai's largest customers. Dr. Afergan returned to graduate school in September 2003, and came back to Akamai full time after receiving his PhD in Computer Science from MIT, where his research focused on networking and distributed systems. Prior to Akamai, Dr. Afergan ran a software consulting company for over ten years, working for a variety of companies ranging from Bose and Fidelity to start-ups. He authored several trade magazine articles and books including Java Quick Reference (Macmillan), which has been translated into six languages. He has also designed and led several technology training courses internationally. Dr. Afergan also has a distinguished academic research career. At MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science and at Harvard, he has conducted research in the areas of networking and distributed systems. This includes the impact of economic incentives on networked systems, reliable networking and content distribution protocols, and wireless protocols and architectures. He has authored a number of academic publications on these topics and has served as a teaching fellow and guest lecturer at Harvard University. His work has won him several industry accolades, and he is an invited speaker in a variety of industry and academic forums. Dr. Afergan graduated magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard College with an A.B. in Computer Science and a focus on Economics. He holds a S.M. from Harvard University and a PhD from MIT, both in Computer Science. He is also a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program from the Sloan School at MIT.

Robert Wood is Vice President and Chief Development Officer for Akamai. His responsibilities include leading Akamai's corporate development and strategic partnership activities, as well as long-term planning. Mr. Wood brings 15 years of deal experience in the technology, financial services, and outsourcing industries, covering a wide range of strategic transactions. Mr. Wood joined Akamai's Business Development group as it was being formed in 1999. Since that time, he has led Akamai's acquisitions of businesses including Speedera Networks and Nine Systems Corporation, and has overseen the development of joint ventures, spin-out transactions, and numerous strategic partnerships. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Wood helped found the corporate electronic commerce and Internet practice at Alston & Bird LLP, one of the nation's leading corporate and technology law firms. He has completed more than $25 billion worth of transactions in mergers and acquisitions and corporate securities work for technology companies and financial institutions. Mr. Wood holds a JD from the University of Virginia, an LLM from the University of Edinburgh, and a BBA in finance and banking from the University of Mississippi.

Chris Schoettle is Executive Vice President of Products at Akamai. Mr. Schoettle is responsible for Akamai's premier solutions for application performance, dynamic sites, and digital assets. These solutions are market-leading in the application performance of Web and IP business applications; dynamic site acceleration and downloads of rich and interactive web sites; and advanced media management of online video, streaming, and storage services. Mr. Schoettle leads product management, product marketing, product specialists, business development, and product operations across these solutions. Mr. Schoettle joined Akamai in 2001 and has also been responsible for Akamai’s global technology platform, including software development, information security, network infrastructure, and service operations. Mr. Schoettle led the integration of the acquisitions of Nine Systems, Netli, Red Swoosh, and Speedera Networks, all of which were acquired since 2005. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Schoettle held a diverse set of positions across a wide range of businesses. Mr. Schoettle was President of Broadband Access at Lucent Technologies, where he managed the global business of broadband connectivity products for service providers across telephony and packet networks. Mr. Schoettle was also Vice President and General Manager of VoIP (Voice over IP) Access Networks, leading Lucent's emerging business to operate voice calls over data networks. At AT&T, Mr. Schoettle was General Manager of Next Generation IP Services, leading new enterprise services on the WorldNet IP network. At Novell, Mr. Schoettle held positions in corporate business development, creating and executing growth opportunities for Novell's networking and directory technology. At Unix System Laboratories, Mr. Schoettle spent five years internationally in both the European and Asia/Pacific markets. He was based in London and Sydney, working closely with major computer manufacturers and system integrators. Mr. Schoettle began his career as a programmer at NCR Corporation. Mr. Schoettle graduated summa cum laude with B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and mathematics from Emory University in Atlanta, and he has completed post-graduate programs at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and at the London Business School. Mr. Schoettle serves on the Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council.

Robert (Bob) Hughes is the Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Services and Marketing for Akamai. His responsibilities include leading Akamai's global sales and marketing teams, as well as directing the company's product management, professional services, technical consulting and customer care organizations. With over 15 years of high-technology sales, marketing and business development experience, Mr. Hughes has been instrumental in building and leading Akamai's world-class sales and channel teams, and in positioning Akamai as the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. Mr. Hughes joined Akamai in 1999, was appointed Vice President of Global Sales and Services in 2002, and Executive Vice President in 2005. Under his leadership, Akamai has continued to generate consecutive quarters of revenue growth. Mr. Hughes manages the growth and retention of thousands of customers under long-term services contracts, including the world's most well known brands, Fortune 1000 businesses, Web-centric companies, and federal, state, and local government agencies. From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Hughes was Vice President of U.S. Sales — Eastern Region, and launched Akamai's successful Public Sector business. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Hughes was Vice President of Channels, where he launched and managed Akamai's indirect distribution business. Mr. Hughes also led the development of Akamai's successful ecosystem of reseller partners including IBM, EDS, Digex, Telefonica, as well as numerous Web development, streaming, and other alliance partners. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Hughes held senior sales and business development positions at PictureTel Corporation, developing strategic sales channels to market PictureTel's TCP/IP voice, video and data product lines; and served in sales and marketing roles at Boston Scientific Corporation. Mr. Hughes received a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University.

Harald Prokop is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Akamai. Mr. Prokop manages the Company's engineering efforts and is responsible for building the services that run on Akamai's globally distributed computing platform. He also helps to define and is responsible for executing Akamai's technology strategy with a focus on innovative, market-leading services based on customer requirements. Mr. Prokop joined Akamai in 1999 as one of Akamai's first engineers and has held various leadership roles within Akamai's Engineering department. Mr. Prokop is one of the architects of Akamai's proprietary system for Internet performance measurement and traffic management, a key component of the Company's services. He designed the development and testing process that brings Akamai services to market. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Prokop was working on high-performance and parallel computing at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. His Master's thesis, "Cache-Oblivious Algorithms," has resulted in an active new research branch of algorithm theory that includes the efficient use of memory hierarchies. Mr. Prokop has also received numerous awards during his career. In 2004, he received Akamai's highest employee recognition, the Daniel Lewin Award, for his outstanding technical contributions to the company. In 1996, Mr. Prokop received a fellowship award from Cusanuswerk, Germany. In 1994, Mr. Prokop was one of the winners of the Bundeswettbewerb Informatik, an annual computer science contest sponsored by the federal government in Germany that attracted thousands of student entrants. Mr. Prokop received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Universität Karlsruhe in Germany. He has been published in the fields of Internet computing and computer science.

Robert Blumofe is the Senior Vice President of Networks and Operations at Akamai. Dr. Blumofe leads the Akamai team responsible for the global strategy, deployment, operation, and security of Akamai's production and corporate infrastructure supporting all of the Company's services. Dr. Blumofe joined Akamai in 1999 to lead the Company's first performance team. Serving as one of Akamai's chief architects, Dr. Blumofe was instrumental in the early design and development of the Akamai Network, which now handles hundreds of billions of Internet requests daily. He has led all of Networks and Operations since 2004, and most recently held the post of Vice President of Networks and Operations. Prior to Akamai, Dr. Blumofe was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely published in the areas of algorithms and systems for highly distributed and parallel computing. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT and a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University.

Melanie Haratunian oversees all legal and regulatory matters for Akamai's operations worldwide. Her responsibilities include directing the Company's transactional, intellectual property, litigation, and compliance matters. Ms. Haratunian brings to Akamai 25 years of experience in technology advocacy, corporate leadership, negotiations, business development, and strategic planning. Before joining Akamai in 2003, Ms. Haratunian served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Allegiance Telecom Company Worldwide. There she managed the legal practice for all lines of business and supervised all transactional and litigation professionals on behalf of the 4,000-employee company. She also worked as General Counsel for Allegiance Internet, Inc., overseeing all legal matters for the company's eight Internet access and Web-hosting subsidiaries. Prior to Allegiance Telecom, Ms. Haratunian was Vice President and General Counsel of HarvardNet, Inc., where she established and managed the company's legal department through its entire life cycle. As a Partner at the law firm of Halprin, Temple, Goodman & Sugrue in Washington D.C. and as a senior official at the Federal Communications Commission, Ms. Haratunian was recognized as a national expert on customer privacy issues. In that capacity, she provided legal and regulatory counsel on matters impacting privacy legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress, and those affecting her firm's Fortune 100 corporate clients. She also developed the customer privacy regulations that were incorporated into the 1996 Telecommunications Act, a statute that now applies to all U.S. telecommunications carriers. Ms. Haratunian holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College.

Mr. Salerno is elected to the Board as of January 1, 2006, having previously served as a director of the former Viacom Inc. since 1994. He is a retired Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Verizon Communications Inc., a position he held from June 2000 to October 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Salerno served as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Bell Atlantic (Verizon’s predecessor) from August 1997. Prior to the merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX Corporation, Mr. Salerno served as Vice Chairman, Finance and Business Development, of NYNEX from 1994 to 1997. Mr. Salerno was Vice Chairman of the Board of NYNEX and President of the NYNEX Worldwide Services Group from 1991 to 1994. Mr. Salerno is also a director of Akamai Technologies, Inc., The Bear Stearns Companies Inc., CBS Corporation, IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Popular Inc.

Geoffrey Moore has served as a director of Akamai since October 2006. Mr. Moore has been a Managing Director of TCG Advisors LLC, a management consulting firm, since May 2003. Previously, he had been a Managing Director of The Chasm Group, a technology strategy consulting firm that he founded in 1993. Mr. Moore is also a venture partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm, serving as an advisor to many of its portfolio companies. He graduated in American literature with honors from Stanford University and has a doctorate from the University of Washington in English literature.

Martin M. Coyne II has served as a director of Akamai since November 2001. Mr. Coyne was named our Lead Director in May 2003. Between 1995 and his retirement in July 2003, Mr. Coyne served in a variety of senior management positions at the Eastman Kodak Company, which develops, manufactures and markets imaging products and services. Mr. Coyne most recently served as Group Executive, Photography Group, and Executive Vice President of Eastman Kodak. Mr. Coyne also serves on the boards of directors of OpenPages, a privately-held provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management solutions, and Avecia Group Plc., a privately-held manufacturer of biologics and oligonucleotides. Mr. Coyne earned a B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Fordham University in 1971 and an MBA degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1985. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of Business in 1989.

Pete Kight has served as a director of Akamai since March 2004. Since December 1981, Mr. Kight has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of CheckFree Corporation, a provider of financial electronic commerce services and products.

Ronald Graham has served as a director of Akamai since August 2001. Mr. Graham, a professor at the University of California at San Diego since January 1999, holds the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Endowed Chair of Computer and Information Science. Mr. Graham is also the Chief Scientist of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, an institute created by the State of California to fund research related to the next generation of Internet technologies. In addition, since July 1996, Mr. Graham has served as the Treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1962 until December 1999, Mr. Graham served in a variety of positions at AT&T Corp., a global telecommunications corporation, most recently as Chief Scientist. Dr. Graham holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a B.S. in physics from the University of Alaska. He has won numerous awards in the field of mathematics, including the Polya Prize in Combinatorics and the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society.