Akamai Promotes William Weihl to Chief Technology Officer.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2002 Akamai Technologies, 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 ), a provider of products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, today announced it has promoted William (Bill) E. Weihl to the role of Chief Technology Officer. A veteran of Akamai's distinguished research and development organization, Mr. Weihl joined Akamai in 1999 and quickly emerged as a key leader in technology decisions across the company. In his new and expanded capacity as CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Weihl will continue to develop and articulate Akamai's technical vision and strategy for enabling customers to extend and control their e-business infrastructures across the global Akamai platform. He will report directly to George Conrades, Akamai's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Bill has demonstrated his significant talents as a technologist and evangelist of Akamai's vision," said Conrades. "He has worked closely with customers to understand their requirements, while helping to drive our engineering priorities. I am confident in Bill's ability to ensure that Akamai remains responsive to our customers' evolving needs, including the exciting potential of distributed application processing." Initially hired as a technical lead for Akamai's strategic technology partnerships, Weihl was soon appointed as Chief Architect for Akamai's Content Delivery Services See CDN. organization. Working closely with Akamai Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Tom Leighton, Bill has played a major role in the design and development of many of Akamai's services, including customized offerings for enterprise and government accounts. Prior to Akamai, Weihl was a Senior Consulting Engineer at Compaq's (formerly Digital's) Systems Research Center. He led the design and development of Digital's Continuous Profiling Infrastructure (DCPI DCPI Digital Continuous Profiling Infrastructure (now Compaq Continuous Profiling Infrastructure) DCPI Deputy Commissioner, Public Information (NYPD) DCPI Drum Corps Planet International ), an innovation that has led to 19 issued patents, with several others still pending. Weihl has also served as a tenured ten·ured adj. Having tenure: tenured civil servants; tenured faculty. Adj. 1. tenured associate professor of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . He has been recognized worldwide for his leadership in research on distributed and parallel computing, with notable results in transaction processing and parallel programming languages. About Akamai Akamai provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and applications delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, visit www.akamai.com. Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and 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 Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure of our telecommunications suppliers to provide sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , quarterly reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. , and other documents periodically filed with the SEC. |
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