2005 Press Releases
BBN Technologies Appoints George Conrades, Executive Chairman of Akamai Technologies, to Board of Directors
George Conrades Appointed to Board of Directors
Cambridge, Mass., May 12, 2005 — BBN Technologies, a leading advanced technology and research and development firm, today announced that George Conrades, executive chairman of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), has been appointed to BBN's Board of Directors. Mr. Conrades served as the CEO of BBN from 1994 to 1997.
"I'm delighted to join the Board of Directors of BBN Technologies, a highly respected organization renowned for developing innovative solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems," said Mr. Conrades. "It's a privilege to be reunited with BBN's world-class scientists and their excellent work."
The BBN Board of Directors also includes: Tad Elmer, BBN's president and CEO; David Fialkow and Ken Novack, managing director and advisory board member of General Catalyst Partners, respectively; Jim Breyer and Kevin Efrusy of Accel Partners; and Anita K. Jones, the Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering & Applied Science, and Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia.
"George brings to the BBN board an outstanding record of technology and business leadership together with a deep understanding of and appreciation for BBN's business, culture, and core values," said Mr. Elmer. "His counsel will help us grow and prosper."
George Conrades was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Akamai in April 1999, bringing a broad range of business experience in the computing, Internet, telecommunications, and media industries. Mr. Conrades became Executive Chairman of Akamai in April 2005.
Before joining Akamai, Mr. Conrades was Executive Vice President and President of GTE Internetworking following the firm's acquisition of BBN Corporation in 1997. At GTE, he was responsible for creating GTE Internetworking and leading GTE's rapid growth in the data and Internet business, including integrated telecommunications services.
From 1994 until GTE's acquisition of BBN, Mr. Conrades served as CEO of BBN, where he built BBN Planet into one of the industry's top-tier ISPs. BBN designed, built, and deployed the first four nodes of the ARPANET, the forerunner to today's Internet.
Mr. Conrades currently serves as a venture partner at Polaris Venture Partners, an early stage investment company.
About BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, is focused on solving some of the world's most pressing problems. From national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation, to integrating disparate systems and networks, BBN has been at the forefront of technological change for over 50 years.
Known for pioneering the development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, BBN continues to create advances in Internet and networking technologies through its work on ad hoc networking, the semantic web, quantum communications, and advanced protocols. Building on its substantial list of firsts, BBN operates the first metro quantum cryptography network, the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system, and has developed the world's first stereoscopic digital mammography system. For more information on BBN Technologies, visit www.bbn.com.
