Paul Sagan

Paul Sagan is a Senior Advisor to and an Executive in Resident (XIR) at General Catalyst, a venture capital firm, where he focuses on investments in the internet software, services, and infrastructure companies. He was previously a Managing Director at the firm, with responsibility for helping to build the firm’s growth equity investing practice.

Prior to joining General Catalyst, Mr. Sagan was CEO of Akamai Technologies, a pioneer in internet content delivery, application performance, and cloud security, and now one of the largest cloud services providers. He joined Akamai in October 1998 as a chief operating officer, became president the following year, and was CEO from April 2005 until 2013. Mr. Sagan was elected to the Akamai Board of Directors in January 2005 and served until 2019.

Mr. Sagan is also a director of VMware, Inc. Previously, he served as a director of iRobot Corp, as well as Catalina Labs (acquired by Asurion), Dow Jones & Company (acquired by News Corp.), Digitas, Inc. (acquired by Publicis Group), EMC Corp. (acquired by Dell Technologies), and Maven Networks (acquired by Yahoo!).