Adam Karon is Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of Akamai’s Edge Technology Group. In this role, he oversees strategy and product direction for Akamai’s media delivery, web performance and edge computing solutions as well as Akamai’s Intelligent Edge platform, to help businesses deliver immersive online experiences with performance, scale, reliability and simplicity across diverse application architectures.
Karon is responsible for ensuring that Akamai remains the market leader for scale, performance, reliability, ease of use and cost, and generating additional growth through innovation of new products in areas like IoT, 5G and Edge Computing. He brings more than 25 years of organizational management, business operations and technical experience to helping customers address the rapidly changing online technology space.
Previously, Karon served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Akamai’s Media & Carrier Division. In this role, he led the Division’s core functions of engineering and product development, product management, sales, channels, sales engineering, and marketing, focused on enabling today’s leading media, gaming and software companies to deliver the best possible experiences – at scale – to their customers on any device, anywhere, and helping carriers operate high-performing and cost-efficient networks. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Akamai’s 2000+ employee Global Services and Support Organization. In that role, he led Professional Services, Services Product, Customer Experience, Account Management, Customer Support as well as Akamai’s Managed Security Services.
Karon earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Florida State University, a Master of Business Administration degree from Florida Atlantic University, and completed executive programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.
What is Adam Karon's net worth?
The estimated net worth of Adam Karon is at least $1.64 million as of February 2nd, 2023. Mr. Karon owns 21,389 shares of Akamai Technologies stock worth more than $1,635,403 as of March 27th. This net worth estimate does not reflect any other investments that Mr. Karon may own. Learn More about Adam Karon's net worth.
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Has Adam Karon been buying or selling shares of Akamai Technologies?
Over the course of the past ninety days, Adam Karon has sold $945,000.00 of Akamai Technologies stock. Most recently, Adam Karon sold 10,500 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Thursday, February 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $90.00, for a transaction totalling $945,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief operating officer now directly owns 21,389 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,925,010. Learn More on Adam Karon's trading history.
Who are Akamai Technologies' active insiders?
Akamai Technologies' insider roster includes Aaron Ahola (EVP), Robert Blumofe (CTO), Monte Ford (Director), Jill Greenthal (Director), Paul Joseph (EVP), Adam Karon (COO), Rick Mcconnell (Insider), Edward Mcgowan (CFO), Madhu Ranganathan (Director), Kim Salem-Jackson (CMO), Mani Sundaram (EVP), Bernadus Verwaayen (Director), and Anthony Williams (EVP). Learn More on Akamai Technologies' active insiders.
Are insiders buying or selling shares of Akamai Technologies?
In the last year, Akamai Technologies insiders bought shares 30 times. They purchased a total of 9,193 shares worth more than $751,185.81. In the last year, insiders at the technology infrastructure company sold shares 21 times. They sold a total of 91,652 shares worth more than $8,650,025.33. The most recent insider tranaction occured on March, 24th when CEO F Thomson Leighton bought 333 shares worth more than $25,034.94. Insiders at Akamai Technologies own 1.7% of the company.
Learn More about insider trades at Akamai Technologies. Information on this page was last updated on 3/24/2023.
