Akamai Appoints Carlos Ramon as Vice President of Sales and General Manager, International.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- New Vice President based in Europe will oversee Akamai's sales efforts throughout European and Asia-Pacific regions Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), the global leader of distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. solutions and services, today announced that Carlos Ramon has been appointed Vice President of Sales and General Manager, International to lead Akamai's international expansion, and to help increase global sales and awareness of its market-leading, Edge-based services and platform. Mr. Ramon will report to Robert Hughes Robert Hughes may refer to:
Mr. Ramon brings over 15 years of international enterprise software sales expertise to Akamai. Until recently, Mr. Ramon served as Vice President of Global Sales at HAHT Commerce, an award-winning provider of demand chain management applications. Prior to HAHT Commerce, Mr. Ramon was Vice President of Sales and International Business Development at PeopleSoft, and has also served as Vice President and General Manager of Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. at Vantive, a leading provider of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. applications. Speaking about his appointment, Mr. Ramon said, "I am very excited about the opportunities and challenges of my new role at Akamai. I have always been impressed with Akamai's unique value proposition of delivering content and applications on a global scale to many of the world's most important and demanding organizations. I am impressed with the team that I will be working with at Akamai and look forward to being a part of Akamai's international development and market expansion. Akamai has proven its understanding of local customer and market needs, and its ability to deliver the best service and solutions for a global customer base." Akamai's Hughes stated, "Carlos brings a wealth of global sales and organizational experience to his new role at Akamai. Our international partners, customers and employees are an intrinsic part of Akamai's future expansion, and the appointment of Carlos will help us to deliver on a global level as we move forward into 2005 and beyond." About Akamai Akamai(R) is the global leader of distributed computing solutions and services, making the Internet predictable, scalable, and secure for conducting profitable e-business. The Akamai on demand platform enables customers to easily extend their Web operations Web operations is a domain of expertise within IT systems management that involves the deployment, operation, maintenance, tuning, and repair of web-based applications. With the rise of web technologies since mid-1995, specialists have emerged that understand the complexities of - with full control - anywhere, anytime, without the cost of building out infrastructure. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai serves hundreds of today's most successful enterprises and government agencies around the globe. Akamai is The Business Internet. For more information, visit www.akamai.com. |
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