Sean M. Lyons — CEO
Sean M. Lyons is the Senior Vice President and General Manager responsible for Akamai’s Application & Infrastructure Security within the Security Technology Group. In this role, he oversees the company’s strategy and product direction for industry-leading solutions such as Prolexic, Edge DNS, App & API Protector, Bot Manager, Account Protector, Brand Protector, and Client-Side Protection & Compliance to ensure that customer environments remain highly available and protected against growing, dynamic cyber threats. With a blend of security, technical, and business acumen, he is responsible for profit and loss, creating and executing strategies that grow Akamai’s security business, leading engineering and product management teams, and collaborating across the company and with customers to develop products. Lyons brings more than 25 years of extensive experience within the security domain. His career at Akamai began in 2014 following the acquisition of Prolexic Technologies, where he was formerly the Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Sales & Partnerships. His previous roles at Akamai include Vice President of Web Security Specialization, Vice President of Global Enterprise & Prolexic Product Line Sales, Vice President of the Advanced Technologies Group, and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure Security Solutions & Services. Prior to Prolexic, Lyons served in leadership roles at McAfee and SafeBoot. He has a bachelor’s degree of liberal arts in History and Education with a minor in Psychology from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He also serves as a National Board Member of Wabash College
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Executive with extensive experience in application and infrastructure security.
Experience: 30 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Application Security
- Infrastructure Security
- Cybersecurity Strategy
- Sales Management
- Product Line Strategy
- Sales Strategy
- Web Security
- Product Enablement
- Data Protection
Career Highlights
- Over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity.
- Led product strategy for industry-leading security solutions.
- Strong blend of technical and business acumen.
Work Experience
Akamai Technologies
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Application & Infrastructure Security (5 mos)
SVP & GM, Infrastructure Security Solutions & Services (3 yrs 6 mos)
Vice President, Advanced Technology Group (ATG) Enterprise & Prolexic Product Line Sales (4 yrs 5 mos)
Area Vice President, Web Security Specialization (2 yrs)
Regional Vice President, Americas Web Security Specialization (2 yrs 10 mos)
Wabash College
National Board Member (7 mos)
Prolexic Technologies
Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Sales & Partnerships (1 yr 8 mos)
Vice President Of Global Partnership Sales (6 mos)
Intel Corporation
Senior Sales Account Executive (1 yr 4 mos)
McAfee
Product Line Executive - Data Protection (2 yrs 9 mos)
SafeBoot ( Acquired by McAfee )
Director of Federal & State Operations (1 yr 9 mos)
Network Source One
Regional Director Of Sales And Marketing (4 yrs)
Expand Networks (liquidated)
Regional Sales Manager (2 yrs 9 mos)
Memco Software ( Acquired by Platinum Technologies )
Territory Sales Manager (1 yr 9 mos)
Decision Consultants
Business Development Manager (1 yr)
The Genix Group
Inside Sales / Account Manager (1 yr 2 mos)
Education
at Wabash College
