Dr. Robert Blumofe became Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in March 2021. He previously served as Executive Vice President, Platform and General Manager of the Enterprise Division (2016-2021) and as Executive Vice President - Platform from January 2013. He joined Akamai in 1999 and held a variety of roles, including leading the performance team and developing the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. Before Akamai he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and has been widely published in algorithms and systems for highly distributed and parallel computing.