Venkata Lakshmi Prasad Mandava , Managing Director for AKAMI India leads business operations for Akamai in India. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), is an American content delivery network and cloud service provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15% and 30% of all web traffic.
In his role as the leader of the India management team, Mr. Mandava focus on driving collaboration within the organization, building customer loyalty along with supporting Akamai’s strategy and initiatives in the country.
Mandava was serving as Vice President, Engineering at Akamai. He joined Akamai in 2009 and has over 22 years of experience in technology and management. He is the co-founder of the Akamai Wizards program – a program in Akamai created to foster the spirit of innovation amongst employees, and was instrumental in taking the program global along with being an executive sponsor.
Prior to joining Akamai, Mr. Mandava served as Managing Director, Mobile Aspects India. Mr. Mandava earned his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai; his Master of Science from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.