Janaki Akella has served on the Akamai Board since 2025 and sits on the Audit and Finance Committees. She held Digital Transformation leadership roles at Google LLC from 2017 to 2023, most recently as Chief of Business Operations, Director, Ads Privacy and Safety (2020-2023), and spent 1999 to 2016 at McKinsey & Company, most recently as a principal. She currently serves on the boards of Southern Company, SLM Corporation (Sallie Mae) and the enterprise AI company Fractal.ai, bringing deep expertise in cloud computing, cybersecurity, AI and strategy.