Akamai Appoints Frederic Moraillon as Asia Pacific Japan Marketing VP
Frederic Moraillon takes on new role at Akamai to drive branding, marketing, and lead generation activities in Asia Pacific Japan.
SINGAPORE – November 16, 2011 – Akamai Technologies Pte. Ltd. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing userexperiences on any device, anywhere, has appointed Frederic Moraillon as Vice President of Marketing for Asia Pacific Japan (APJ).
Based in Singapore and reporting to Sanjay Singh, Vice President for Asia Pacific Japan at Akamai, Frederic is responsible for driving overall branding, field marketing and public relations functions with a focus on strategic growth opportunities across APJ.
Sanjay said: “We are very excited to have Frederic join us as we strengthen the leadership team in this fast-growing and diverse region. His extensive experience in business-to-business marketing and sales will be a great asset to us as we continue to help companies accelerate their business into the hyperconnected world. We look forward tohaving Frederic lead the team to identify market opportunities, as well as,develop, articulate and implement our go-to-market strategies across multipleindustries in the region.”
Frederic has held senior leadership roles with Business Objects, SAS Institute, PeopleSoft Inc., and Silicon Graphics. He has also led, coached, and been part of, numerous start-ups including a number of successful specialist software vendors. Prior to joining Akamai, Frederic was running a boutique public relations firm and software sales business.
“Increasingly, businesses and organizations are embracing mobile and cloud trends while trying to overcome the challenges of security threats,” said Frederic.
“As an industry leader with pervasive reach in cloud, mobile, security and next generation media, Akamai has enormous potential for growth. I believe my experience inintegrating business strategies, with marketing and sales functions will allow me to make a positive contribution to the company,” Frederic added.
APJ is the fastest growing region worldwide for Akamai. Akamai plans to further drive growth in key markets by strengthening branding, marketing and go-to-market strategies. The Company recently introduced the Akamai NetAlliance Partner program that is designed to strengthen its channel network globally by working with the world’s leading hardware and software integrators, application and infrastructure service providers that are helping enterprises as they integrate the cloud into their business.
