Paul Sagan

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Mr. Paul Sagan serves as Senior Advisor & Executive in General Catalyst. Mr. Paul Sagan serves as Chief Executive Officer at e-Media. He served as Board Member at Jana Mobile. He is a Board Member of Moderna Therapeutics, VMware & Vade Secure. He has served as a director of VMware since April 2014 and was elected VMware's Lead Director in February 2015. He was a director of EMC from December 2007 until the Dell Acquisition in September 2016. He has been an Executive In Residence (XIR) at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm, since January 2014. From April 2005 to January 2013, he served as CEO of Akamai Technologies, Inc., a provider of services for accelerating the delivery of content and applications over the Internet, and was President from May 1999 to September 2010 and from October 2011 to December 2012. He joined Akamai in October 1998 as Vice President and COO. In December 2010, President Barack Obama appointed him as a member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. From July 1997 to August 1998, he was Senior Advisor to the World Economic Forum. Previously, he held senior executive positions at global media and entertainment companies Time Warner Cable and Time Inc., affiliates of Time Warner, Inc., as well as at CBS, Inc. He is currently a director of Akamai. As the former President, COO and CEO of a fast-growing, industry-leading S&P 500 company, he has significant experience leading a complex, international technology enterprise, extensive knowledge of internet-based technologies and business acumen. During his career, he has led visionary technology and media companies and consulted with the World Economic Forum. Mr. Sagan holds a BS in Journalism from Northwestern University.