Paul Sagan

CEO, Akamai Technologies

Paul Sagan, President and CEO of Akamai, joined the company in 1998. Mr. Sagan was elected to the Akamai Board of Directors in 2005, and became CEO in 2005. Previously, Mr. Sagan served as senior advisor to the World Economic Forum from 1997 to 1998. In 1995, Mr. Sagan was named president and editor of new media at Time Inc. Previously, he was managing editor of Time Warner’s News on Demand project, and was a founder of Road Runner, the world’s 1st 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. Mr. Sagan’s career began in broadcast news. He joined WCBS-TV in 1981 as a news writer and became news director in 1987. Mr. Sagan is a three-time Emmy Award winner.

He is a director of Massachusetts-based EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) and a Trustee of Northwestern University as well as a graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. He is co-chairman of the Medill Board of Advisors; a member of the Dean’s Council at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; an advisor to the MATCH charter public high school in Boston; and a member of the Presidential Advisory Council at Berklee College of Music.