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Akamai appoints Louis Tague as VP and MD for Australia and New Zealand

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Akamai has appointed Louis Tague as its new regional vice president and managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

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Akamai has appointed Louis Tague as regional vice president and managing director for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ). Tague was most recently A/NZ vice president and managing director at CrowdStrike up to November 2025, and has been on a career break since. In his new role, Tague will have overall responsibility for the cybersecurity and cloud computing vendor's business in A/NZ and will report to senior vice president and managing director for Asia Pacific (APAC) Sean Li. Akamai said Tague will focus on accelerating growth, building stronger customer and partner relationships, and helping customers get more value from Akamai as their technology needs change. Tague takes on the role as Akamai expands its capabilities across security, AI and cloud, and said he will focus on helping customers bring these technologies together and apply them to their business needs. "Akamai has strong customer relationships and a broad set of security, AI and cloud capabilities," Tague said. "I look forward to learning more from our employees, customers and partners to understand where we can help most and make it easier for customers to put the full value of Akamai to work." Dedicated local leadership will help Akamai maintain its focus on customers and capture opportunities across the A/NZ region, which is one of its most developed markets in APAC, with established, decades-old customer...

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Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
Louis Tagueregional vice president and managing director for Australia and New Zealand
Location
Australia and New Zealand

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  • directors
  • management

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Confidence
95%
Detected
Aug 25, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
hires

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