Akamai Promotes Michael Ruffolo to Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Services and Marketing.

Business/Technology Editors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of secure, outsourced, e-business infrastructure services and software, today announced it has promoted Michael Ruffolo to Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Services and Marketing. Mr. Ruffolo joined the company in August of 2001 as Executive Vice President. In his new and expanded capacity, he will lead Akamai's worldwide sales, service delivery, channels, business development, corporate communications and marketing services organizations. He will continue to report directly to George Conrades, Akamai's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

"In his short tenure with Akamai, Mike has demonstrated his significant talents as a strategist and business leader," said Conrades. "I am confident in Mike's ability to help Akamai achieve our ambitious revenue and profitability goals."

Michael Ruffolo added, "Before I joined Akamai I was convinced that the company had enormous potential to be one of the next great technology companies. Having spent the last three months on the inside, I am even more convinced that we have the right technology, the right solutions for today's e-business infrastructure challenges, the 'A' players on the team, and the sheer will and determination necessary to make it happen. I am excited to work with the other members of the management team to realize our revenue and profitability goals."

About Akamai

Akamai is the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,000 servers within over 1,000 networks in 63 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better Internet(SM), visit www.akamai.com.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act 

The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.