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BBJ Special Section BBJ Announcement Winners Press Release

Congratulations to the 2023 Boston ORBIE winners!




Leadership

Tom Leighton

Global

Gabriele Ricci

Large Enterprise

Michael Ruttledge


Enterprise

Shannon Gath

Large Corporate

Ian Pitt

Corporate

Nicholas Szymanski

CISO

Katie Jenkins

Global Finalists

Mark
Cressey

Mike
Gabree

Anjana
Harve

Gabriele
Ricci

Large Enterprise Finalists

Heather
Nelson

Ramesh
Razdan

Michael
Ruttledge

Ravi
Shankavaram

Enterprise Finalists

Jim
Feen

Shannon
Gath

Daniel
Nigrin

Prakash
Pandian

Kate
Prouty

Large Corporate Finalists

Orla
Daly

Jim
Kotarski

Dean
Patterson

Ian
Pitt

Mark
Yunger

Corporate Finalists

Dan
Anthony

Wesley
Esser

Patty
Patria

David
Ramsey

Nicholas
Szymanski

CISO Finalists

Michael
Daly

Eric
Galis

Katie
Jenkins

Brian
McGowan

Mario
Memmo

Robert
Sullivan

Leadership Award Recipient

Tom Leighton, Akamai

Dr. Tom Leighton co-founded Akamai Technologies in 1998 and served as Akamai’s Chief Scientist until he became CEO in 2013. Under Dr. Leighton’s leadership, Akamai has evolved from its origins as a content delivery network (CDN) into the world’s most distributed cloud platform, with leading solutions for content delivery, cybersecurity, and cloud computing. During his time as CEO, Akamai’s revenue has more than doubled, growing from less than $1.4 billion in 2012 to more than $3.6 billion in 2022, while earnings per share nearly tripled. Over the same period, annual revenue from Akamai’s security business has grown from less than $25 million to more than $1.5 billion. Dr. Leighton holds more than 50 patents involving content delivery, internet protocols, algorithms for networks, cryptography, and digital rights management. He and Akamai’s co-founder Danny Lewin were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2017 for having “invented the methods needed to intelligently replicate and deliver content over a large network of distributed servers, technology that would ultimately solve what was becoming a frustrating problem for internet users known as the ‘World Wide Wait.’” In 2018, the Marconi Society selected him to receive the Marconi Prize for “his fundamental contributions to technology and the establishment of content delivery networks.” The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) awarded him the John von Neumann Medal in 2023 for “fundamental contributions to algorithm design and their application to content delivery networks.” He has served on numerous government, industry, and academic advisory panels. Dr. Leighton was one of 18 CEOs invited to the White House in 2017 for the launch of the American Technology Council to develop solutions to modernize and secure the U.S. government’s IT systems. From 2003 to 2005, he served on the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee and chaired its Subcommittee on Cybersecurity. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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