Managing Director, Asia Pacific, and Senior Vice President of Sales
Sean Li is Senior Vice President of Sales and Managing Director, Asia Pacific region, responsible for driving Akamai’s growth and expansion in countries throughout the region.
Previously, he was Regional Vice President of Sales and Managing Director of Greater China, responsible for Akamai’s overall go-to-market strategy in Greater China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan. Under his leadership, Greater China has grown to be a key, strategic market for Akamai. By leading the cross-functional teams to provide the best cloud computing, delivery and security services to enterprise-level customers from all industries with digitization ambitions, Li and his team in China are helping customers to expand their global business.
Prior to this position he was Pre-sales Director of Akamai’s Media Division in the Asia Pacific region, leading the team to provide world class consulting, design, advisory services of CDN and cloud security solutions to digital media customers. The industries his team covered included broadcasting/OTT, online publishers, social media, gaming and technology. Under his leadership, his team helped to make the region the fastest growing theater in Akamai’s global media business.
Li has more than 25 years of IT industry experience in network, telecom, application delivery optimization and application performance management. Prior to joining Akamai, he held various go-to-market roles at IBM, Cisco, Avaya and Riverbed.
He is a graduate of Fu Dan University (Shanghai) with a degree in Computer Science.