George Conrades
George Conrades is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Akamai Technologies, Inc. and also serves as a venture partner at Polaris Venture Partners, an early stage investment company.
He had been Executive Vice President and President, GTE Internetworking since the acquisition of BBN by GTE in 1997. He was also Chief Executive Officer of BBN (1994-98). At GTE, George 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, Conrades served as Chief Executive Officer of BBN, the highly regarded technology research and development firm, rapidly building the company into one of the industry's top tier ISPs. BBN helped build the ARPANET, the forerunner to today's modern Internet.
Previously, he was with IBM for thirty-one years, including IBM United States and IBM Asia/Pacific in Tokyo. At IBM, he was Senior Vice President and a member of IBM's Corporate Management Board.
He is former Chairman of the Board of Ohio Wesleyan University, a trustee of The Scripps Research Institute, a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, and chair of the subcommittee report on the importance of basic research in America. Previously, he served as director for several companies in health care, bio-pharmaceuticals and high technology, and is a member of the board of Viacom and Infinity Broadcasting.
Mr. Conrades holds a Bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University (1961) and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago (1971).
He was appointed as one of ICANN's nine initial directors in October 1998. He served until November 2000.
