Akamai Technologies, Inc.(akamai.com), the provider of distributed computing solutions and services, announced Lisa Arthur as the Chief Marketing Offi...

Akamai Technologies, Inc.(akamai.com), the provider of distributed computing solutions and services, announced Lisa Arthur as the Chief Marketing Officer.

With more than twenty years of marketing and communications experience, Ms. Arthur will report to George Conrades, Akamai chairman and CEO, and will be responsible for Akamai's marketing strategy and operations.

"Lisa's impressive track record and unique ability to blend marketing creativity and strategy with technical expertise will be very important as Akamai enters new and expanding markets for on-demand distributed computing solutions," Conrades said. "We are looking forward to Lisa playing a central role in developing and marketing our offerings."

Arthur said, "Akamai is the leader in on demand content and application delivery, evident by the large enterprises and government agencies that rely on its scalable technology platform. Akamai offers one of the industry's most important services platforms and I am excited to be joining the Akamai team."

Most recently, Ms. Arthur served as Vice President, On Demand & Services Marketing at Oracle Corporation and also as Vice President, Global CRM Product Marketing. Prior to her role at Oracle, Ms. Arthur was Vice President of Marketing at Exact Software (formerly Macola Software) and served on the board of directors for Aqua Tech Environmental Labs.