| Virginia Tech University, B.S. | 1984 |
| Mechanical Engineering |
As Senior Vice President (SVP) at Ning, Mr. Parikh leads the product development, engineering, QA, and operations teams that are creating Ning’s social networking platform. He defines and is responsible for executing on Ning’s product and platform roadmap. He serves as head of day-to-day operations relieving Gina Bianchini for more outward facing activities such as blogging and video demos.
Prior to joining Ning, Mr. Parikh was one of the VPs of Engineering at Akamai Technologies. As a VP, Mr. Parikh led the product engineering teams responsible for Akamai’s Digital Asset and Dynamic Site Solutions. These solutions are the core services leveraged by the majority of Akamai’s customers. Mr. Parikh led the development and launch of numerous new Akamai products over his 8.5 year career at Akamai.
