Tom Leighton
📊 CEO Reputation Score
FY2025 vs FY2024 · Source: SEC EDGAR filings- Free cash flow: $1.1B → $1.0B (−10.4% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
- Profit (net income): $505M → $452M (−10.5% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
Overview
Tom Leighton is the co-founder & ceo of Akamai Technologies since 2013. Akamai Technologies is a Information Technology company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1998, and one of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 — every one of which is profiled on this site.
Leadership
Tom holds the chief executive role at Akamai Technologies with the title Co-founder & CEO — in post since 2013. This page is the concise leadership record for Akamai Technologies in the S&P 500 CEO index; the site's fully researched long-form profiles (career timelines, education, achievements, setbacks, philosophy and sourced quotes) currently cover the index's ten largest companies, and this entry will be expanded in the same format. Tom Leighton is a founder of the company — a distinction shared by only a minority of the chief executives in this index.
At a Glance
- Sector: Information Technology
- Ticker: $AKAM
- Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Founded: 1998
- CEO since: 2013
- Index: S&P 500 (#13 of 500)