F5 Announces New Leadership Roles to Drive Heightened Agility, Productivity, and AI Innovation
2024年9月3日 - 10:00PM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
Tom Fountain appointed Chief Operating Officer,
Chad Whalen named Chief Revenue Officer, Kunal Anand becomes Chief
Technology and AI Officer
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced three new leadership roles
designed to drive heightened agility, productivity, and AI
innovation.
Tom Fountain, formerly F5’s Executive Vice President of Global
Services and Chief Strategy Officer, becomes F5’s Chief Operating
Officer. As COO, Fountain is responsible for driving operational
velocity and advancing execution, productivity, and efficiency
company wide. He will continue to oversee Global Services and lead
F5’s digital transformation.
F5 also is streamlining its go-to-market functions, combining
sales and marketing under former Executive Vice President of
Worldwide Sales, Chad Whalen, who now takes on the role of Chief
Revenue Officer. As CRO, Whalen is responsible for driving revenue
growth, including continued growth across F5’s software solutions,
and successfully executing F5’s land-and-expand strategy across its
more than 20,000 large enterprise, service provider, and government
customers globally.
Finally, F5 is reinforcing its commitment to innovation in AI,
including incorporating generative AI across its product families.
Recently appointed Chief Technology Officer, Kunal Anand, becomes
Chief Technology and AI Officer, expanding his responsibilities to
include F5’s company-wide AI strategy.
Each of these new roles is effective immediately and all will
report to F5 President and CEO, François Locoh-Donou.
“Our customers rely on F5 to keep them ahead of the rapid pace
of IT infrastructure change. With these leadership changes, we are
setting the stage for our next phase of growth, evolving F5 to
drive heightened agility and productivity while prioritizing
continued rapid innovation where it matters most to customers,”
said François Locoh-Donou, F5 president and CEO.
F5 also announced it has launched an external search to replace
current Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Kara
Sprague. Sprague has accepted an opportunity to become CEO of a
private technology company and will be leaving F5 in November
2024.
“Kara is an incredible leader who has made innumerable
contributions to F5, including serving as a driving force behind
our successful transition to a software-led business,” said
Locoh-Donou. “In her leadership roles at F5, Kara has been
instrumental in expanding and evolving our solutions portfolio with
a constant focus on what matters most for customers. We wish her
the very best in her future role.”
For F5 executive background and biography information please
visit F5.com/company/leadership.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements
regarding, among other things, transitions in F5’s executive
leadership and business innovation. These, and other statements
that are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor
provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Actual results could differ materially from those
projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain
risk factors. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties, as well as assumptions and other factors that, if
they do not fully materialize or prove correct, could cause the
actual results, performance, events (including leadership
performance) or achievements (including business innovation) of the
Company to be materially different from any future results,
performance, events or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not
limited to: integration of and results from executive leadership
changes, F5’s ability to attract, train and retain qualified
personnel; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully
in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K
and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K and other documents
that we file or furnish from time to time, which could cause actual
results, performance, events or achievements to vary from
expectations. All forward-looking statements in this press release
are based on information available as of the date hereof and
qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. F5
assumes no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking
statements.
About F5
F5 is a multicloud application security and delivery company
committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners
with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to secure
every app—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables
businesses to continuously stay ahead of threats while delivering
exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers. For
more information, go to f5.com. (NASDAQ: FFIV)
You can also follow @F5 on X (Twitter) or visit us on LinkedIn
and Facebook to learn about F5, its partners, and technologies.
F5, NGINX, and NGINX Plus are trademarks, service marks, or
tradenames of F5, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries.
Source: F5, Inc.
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Investor Contact: Suzanne DuLong (206) 272-7049
s.dulong@f5.com
Press Contact: Rob Gruening (206) 272-6208 r.gruening@f5.com
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