Preetish Nijhawan

Preetish Nijhawan was an Indian-American entrepreneur known for co-founding the internet company Akamai Technologies in 1998.

Early life Nijhawan studied at Hyderabad Public School, then received a Bachelor of Science degree from BITS, Pilani, a master's degree from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Career Before joining NeoEdge, Nijhawan was a Vice President at BMC Software and prior to that he was a co-founder and Vice President at iVita Corporation, and was a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Earlier in his career he also spent 6 years at Intel Corporation in engineering and management roles.

Preetish was Managing Director and co-founder of Cervin Ventures,