Daniel C. Lewin

Daniel "Danny" C. Lewin, mathematician and entrepeneur. He died at age 31 in the crash of American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. Danny Lewin co-founded [Akamai Technologies]?, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the Chief Technical Officer (CTO), and board member. At the time of his death, he was a Ph.D. candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was said to have become a paper-billionaire when Akamai stock first became available.

Lewin was born in Denver and raised in Jerusalem, Israel, where he served as a soldier in Israel's Defense Forces. He was survived by his wife and two sons.

His parents visited him from Israel in the week before his flight.

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