John Payne

John Payne

  • Minority Owner of the New England Free Jacks
  • Founder of Procella Tech.
  • Former Chief Architect for Enterprise Security and Infrastructure at Akamai Technologies.
  • Background includes IBM mainframes, UNIX systems administration, and networking.
  • Shifted career focus to Information Security.
  • Early experience in IP networking, including using a modified gopher server for HTTP/0.9.
  • Consistent focus on making data secure and accessible throughout his career.
  • Most recent role at Akamai involved disrupting IT service consumption and creation.
  • Focused on moving the enterprise network to a scalable Zero Trust platform at Akamai.