Akamai Technologies, Inc. Appoints Fari Ebrahimi as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
January 04, 2018 at 06:30 am
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Fari Ebrahimi as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, effective immediately. Reporting to CEO Dr. Tom Leighton, Mr. Ebrahimi will be responsible for end-to-end business transformation including global strategy, development, and operation of the applications and IT infrastructure that enable agile and efficient user experiences for Akamai's customers, employees, and partners. Mr. Ebrahimi will be based in Akamai's corporate headquarters in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Ebrahimi most recently served as SVP and Global CIO of Avaya. Helping to establish Avaya as a leader in Internet telephony, wireless data communications and customer relationship management software, Mr. Ebrahimi was responsible for employee and customer engagement of cloud and mobile technologies, while maximizing cost-savings through innovation and business process re-engineering.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is the world's No. 1 supplier of Internet applications and content distribution acceleration services. The activity is organized primarily around 3 areas:
- content distribution: transmission, storage, and management of data flows, media content, electronic applications, etc.;
- development of applications on Internet sites: applications for recording user visits to sites, research, etc.;
- other: data management, distribution control, application performance measurement, secure content transmission, etc.
At the end of 2023, the group had a platform of more than 350,000 servers interconnected to more than 1,300 Internet access supplier networks worldwide.
The United States account for 51.7% of net sales.
AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 
