CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud
services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and
business applications, today announced the appointment of Seksom
Suriyapa as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business
Development. Mr. Suriyapa will be responsible for leading
Akamai's corporate development and strategic partnership
activities. He will report to Rick
McConnell, Akamai's President of Products and Development,
and will be a member of the senior management team under CEO
Tom Leighton.
With more than two decades of experience working with global
businesses at all stages of development – from start up to billion
dollar scale – Mr. Suriyapa has driven the go-to-market and
corporate strategic initiatives such as acquisitions, divestitures,
partnerships and joint ventures for a number of leading cloud and
security providers.
"Seksom has a great deal of industry and functionally-relevant
experience that he brings to Akamai," said McConnell. "We
believe that his global operations and business development insight
from working with leading cloud services and security providers
will be a tremendous asset to our ongoing strategic
initiatives."
Most recently, Mr. Suriyapa served as SVP and Chief Operating
Officer at SuccessFactors, an SAP company. He helped position
SuccessFactors within the cloud software market, developing and
leading the company's successful acquisitions strategy.
During his tenure, SuccessFactors grew revenues from approximately
$100M to more than $1 billion.
"I am thrilled to be joining such a tenured and successful
management team, and to become part of a business that has had such
a profound impact on the performance and security of the Internet,"
said Suriyapa. "I welcome the opportunity to lead Akamai's
well-established and proven corporate development team with the
goal of accelerating the company's global vision."
Mr. Suriyapa's experience leading corporate development also
includes roles at McAfee where, as the SVP of Corporate
Development, he successfully led its re-positioning as a leading
security-only pure play. In addition, he has established
business development teams at leading security vendors such as
Veracode. Earlier in his career, Mr. Suriyapa served as a
technology investment banker, most recently with Morgan Stanley, as
well as in venture capital, as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the
Mayfield Fund.
Mr. Suriyapa holds a JD from Stanford
Law School, an MBA from INSEAD Business School, and a BA
from Williams College.
He is based in Akamai's Santa Clara,
CA, office.
About Akamai
Akamai® is the leading provider of cloud services for
delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business
applications. At the core of the Company's solutions is the
Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled
with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and
expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the
increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and
enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn
more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a
hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com or
blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter.
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SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc.