Paul Sagan

Paul Sagan was president and chief executive officer of Akamai Technologies from 2005 until December 2012. He joined the company in 1998 as COO. In 1981, he was a news writer at WCBS-TV and was named news director in 1987. In 1991, he joined Time Warner, designed and launched NY 1 News, was president and editor of new media at Time Inc., 1995-1997. He was managing editor of Time Warner’s News on Demand project and was a senior member of the team responsible for the development of the company’s online, cable online, electronic publishing and Internet publishing activities. Paul was a senior advisor on information technology to the World Economic Forum from 1997-1998. He attended Northeastern University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. At the Shorenstein Center, he looked at the evolution of journalism from the early proprietary online services to the Web services of today and possible models for the future.