Akamai taps Kenny as president

Globe Staff

Akamai Technologies Inc., the Cambridge-based provider of Internet content delivery services, said that David W. Kenny, 48, will become president of Akamai, effective Sept. 7.

"Kenny will be responsible for leading Akamai’s business operations, including the company’s product groups; global sales, services, and marketing; engineering; and networks and operations," Akamai said in a press release. "Kenny will report to CEO Paul Sagan, who has served as Akamai’s president since 1999 and chief executive since 2005."

(Kenny is shown at right in a New York Times file photo.)

Kenny has served as a director of Akamai since 2007, and he will remain on the company’s board of directors, Akamai said.

Previously, Kenny served as chief executive of Digitas, a Boston-based digital marketing company that was acquired by the French advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA in 2007 in a $1.3 billion deal.

Prior to 1997, when he joined the firm that became Digitas, Kenny was a senior partner at Bain & Co., Akamai's press release noted.

To read a Globe story about the Digitas-Publicis deal, please click here. To read a New York Times story about Kenny, please click here.

Akamai also issued earnings today. To read the company's press release on earnings, please click here.