Kumud Kalia, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer of Akamai Technologies

Published: July 24, 2017, 9 a.m.

In this interview, Kumud Kalia, Chief Information Officer at Akamai Technologies, discusses World Class IT Principle Four, IT and Business Partnerships, and Principle Five, External Partnerships. Some of the topics discussed include: The challenges and advantages of being a CIO in a tech company Agility in a fast-growing, evolving organization verses agility in a mature organization The partnership between Akamai’s IT and product teams in developing and testing new solutions Adding higher value as a CIO: developing internal solutions that can be adopted by the end- customer Driving enterprise strategy by leveraging a culture of expansive thinking Eye on the trends: disrupting infrastructure paradigms