Paul Sagan is a Catalyst Advisor at General Catalyst, a global venture capital and private equity firm, where he advises internet software, services and infrastructure companies on strategy and execution. Mr. Sagan joined General Catalyst in 2014 as an Executive in Residence and served as a Managing Director from 2018 to 2020. 

Previously, Mr. Sagan held various leadership roles at Akamai Technologies, Inc., a publicly-traded cloud computing and cybersecurity company. Akamai’s fifteenth employee, Mr. Sagan was Chief Operating Officer from 1998 to 2005 and Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2013. He was elected to the board of directors in January 2005 and served as Vice Chairman from 2013 until 2015. 

Mr. Sagan began his career in broadcast television news. From 1991 and 1996, he was a senior leader at Time Warner, Inc. a former multimedia entertainment company, where he helped establish the first consumer broadband service, one of the first web portals for internet advertising, and a 24-hour cable news service. 

A seasoned public company director, Mr. Sagan currently serves on the board of Moderna and Thomson Reuters. He was a director of VMWare from 2014 until its acquisition by Broadcom in November 2023, serving as lead independent director from February 2015 to November 2023, and previously was a director of Digitas, Dow Jones, EMC and iRobot.