EVP, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer · Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM)

Edward McGowan

A named executive officer of Akamai Technologies in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2019 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$6,198,315

FY2024: $5,532,232

3rd of 5 named executive officers at Akamai Technologies by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for Akamai Technologies, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 31, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Edward McGowan compensation by year

Akamai Technologies Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Akamai Technologies reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$441,538$462,308$494,538$515,000$515,000$519,538$535,000
Bonus$0$0$0—$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,952,036$3,072,736$3,631,420$4,208,604$4,852,329$5,006,694$5,657,142
Option awards$0$0$0—$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$536,945$0$0$0$0$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0—$0$0—
All other$6,000$0$6,000$3,565$6,000$6,000$6,173
Total$2,936,519$3,547,736$4,131,958$4,727,169$5,373,329$5,532,232$6,198,315

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Akamai Technologies, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 31, 2026, accession 0001086222-26-000042, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Akamai Technologies, Inc. filed document, accession 0001086222-26-000042. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 31, 2026.

$2.9M
$3.5M
$4.1M
$4.7M
$5.4M
$5.5M
$6.2M
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU30,925$2,698,206—
PSU13,923$1,214,782—
PSU13,272$1,157,982—
PSU9,008$785,948—
PSU8,247$719,551—
RSU6,353$554,299—
RSU6,225$543,131—
PSU4,639$404,753—
PSU2,986$260,529—
PSU2,655$231,649—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Akamai Technologies’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Tom LeightonChief Executive Officer$15,954,172
Adam KaronCOO and General Manager of the Cloud Technology Group$7,725,594
Edward McGowan · this pageEVP, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer$6,198,315
Mani SundaramEVP and General Manager, Security Technology Group$5,442,327
Paul JosephEVP, Global Sales and Services$5,328,712

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