Paul Sagan

Paul Sagan is a managing director at General Catalyst, the venture capital firm. He invests in enterprise software and internet infrastructure businesses. Before joining General Catalyst, Paul worked at Akamai Technologies, Inc., where he became employee #15 and chief operating officer in 1998. He joined the company before it delivered its first product, and when he left the board of directors 21 years later, revenues were approaching $3 billion. Paul became Akamai’s president in 1999, and he was appointed CEO and elected to the board of directors in 2005. Paul served as chief executive through 2012 and as a director until 2019. He is a director of two public companies, VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA).

Paul served as senior advisor to the World Economic Forum from 1997 to 1998. Previously, Paul was a founder of Road Runner, the world’s first broadband cable modem service, and Pathfinder, one of the early Web properties that pioneered Internet advertising.

President Barack Obama appointed Paul to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee in 2010, and he served until January 2017. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker appointed Paul to chair the Commonwealth’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from 2015 until 2019. Paul is a three-time Emmy Award winner for broadcast journalism in New York, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008, and the 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the technology category. The World Economic Forum named him a Global Leader for Tomorrow in 1996. Paul is a graduate of Northwestern University.