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Jon Alexander

Senior Vice President, Cloud Technology

Jon Alexander is Senior Vice President of Product for the Cloud Technology Group at Akamai. He is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and success of the cloud computing and delivery products.

Alexander joined Akamai in 2017 and has led various product teams inside Akamai, starting within the media division. Before joining Akamai, he worked in several roles focused on building large-scale internet infrastructure. Alexander spent 10 years running the media business at one of the world’s largest telecommunications carriers and has led product teams at start-ups as they defined, launched, and grew new solutions. He is passionate about fostering innovation and building customer-centric product teams.

He holds a Master of Arts and a Master of Engineering from Cambridge University.

Posts by Jon Alexander

The Cloud Giants Are Architecting an Agentic Future They Can’t Run

The cloud giants are selling an architectural illusion. Discover why centralized clouds can’t scale real-time AI agents and why inference must move to the edge.

Agentic Disconnect: The Latency Crisis Facing Modern AI Architecture

Centralized public clouds are creating an architectural bottleneck for agentic AI. Discover how Akamai’s distributed cloud solves the multi-agent latency crisis.

AI: Edge Is All You Need

Learn how Akamai Inference Cloud builds on the distributed architecture work we pioneered nearly 30 years ago to expand AI inference to the edge.