Adam Karon

Adam Karon is Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of the Cloud Technology Group at Akamai. In this role, he oversees company strategy and product direction for our media delivery, web performance, and cloud computing solutions as well as Akamai Connected Cloud, 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 unparalleled market leader for scale, performance, reliability, ease of use, and cost, and to generate additional growth through innovation of new products in areas like IoT, 5G, and edge computing.

Prior to leading Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group, he served as the Executive Vice President & General Manager of the Media & Carrier Division at Akamai. In this role, Karon 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.

He also served as Senior Vice President of Akamai’s 2,000+ employee Global Services and Support organization. In this role, he led professional services, product services, customer experience, account management, and customer support, as well as Akamai’s managed security service.

Karon brings more than 25 years of organizational management, business operations, and technical experience to helping Akamai customers address the rapidly changing online technology space. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Florida State University and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University, and completed executive programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.