LONDON, Sept. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud
services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and
business applications, today announced the appointment of
Doug Tilford as Senior Vice
President and General Manager, EMEA. Based in London, Mr. Tilford will be responsible for
driving sales, customer satisfaction, market expansion, and partner
and business development across Akamai's rapidly-expanding EMEA
region. He will report to Robert
Hughes, Akamai's President of Worldwide Operations.
A 14-year veteran of Akamai, Mr. Tilford has held a number of
management positions, most recently leading Akamai's largest sales
division as Vice President of Enterprise Sales. In that role,
he managed a 50 percent increase in customer acquisition while
expanding into new vertical markets and leading a two-fold
expansion of Akamai's sales force in the Americas. He has led
Akamai's security solutions sales, doubling security revenues year
over year. In addition, he has managed the global sales
integration of many of Akamai's largest acquisitions.
"Doug is a proven, global leader and will be instrumental in
scaling our EMEA operations," said Hughes. "Throughout his
tenure at Akamai, Doug has continually demonstrated his ability to
drive business growth, develop his team, expand his routes to
market, and to always put the interests of our customers and
employees first. I am confident that Doug, working closely
with the rest of the management team across EMEA, will lead Akamai
to even greater success in this important region."
Akamai continues to expand its operations in EMEA to include 15
offices, a world-class services center in Krakow, and a
state-of-the-art customer center in London.
"EMEA has always been a region of success for Akamai, and I'm
thrilled to be joining an established and talented team to help it
scale to new levels," said Tilford. "Looking ahead, I see
significant opportunity in our existing markets as the economies
across EMEA continue to rebound. I look forward to working
closely with our customers in these regions as they adopt
strategies across the areas of cloud, mobile, security, and
media."
Prior to joining Akamai, Mr. Tilford helped to create the news
distribution firm Internet Wire (now Marketwired), leading sales
and marketing for the Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad-funded
start-up. He also served eight years at Xerox Corporation in
sales and sales management.
About Akamai
Akamai® is the leading
provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing
online content and business applications. At the core of the
Company's solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing
extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security,
visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of
connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer
demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the
cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the
pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit
www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on
Twitter.
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SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc.