F5 Names Tom Fountain as Head of Global Services and Strategy
May 21 2020 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the appointment of Tom
Fountain as Executive Vice President of Global Services and Chief
Strategy Officer. In this role, he will head F5’s global support,
professional consulting, educational services, customer success,
manufacturing, and technology services operations.
In addition to the expanded role leading Services, Fountain will
continue to oversee the company’s long-term strategy and corporate
development programs. Fountain will succeed Steve McMillan, who was
recently named President and CEO of Teradata, beginning June 8,
2020.
“Tom has had a tremendous impact on F5 since joining the company
in early 2018. He has brought new rigor to our strategic planning
process, spearheaded the transformative acquisitions of NGINX and
Shape Security, fostered the launch of F5 Cloud Services and Aspen
Mesh, and developed strong technology partnerships through our
Business Development initiatives,” said F5 President and Chief
Executive Officer François Locoh-Donou. “Tom will bring this same
energy, thoughtfulness, and customer-centric approach to our
world-class Global Services team as F5 continues its evolution to
become the leader in multi-cloud application services.”
As a member of the F5 Executive Team, Fountain will continue to
report directly to Locoh-Donou from F5’s offices in San Jose,
California.
Fountain joined F5 in 2018 from the security company McAfee,
where he was Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate
Development. In this role, he was responsible for defining the
company’s corporate strategy, building its technology partnerships
and strategic alliances, managing the business’ operations, and
leading corporate development. Prior to McAfee, Fountain held
multiple leadership roles at Juniper Networks, including General
Manager of the company’s Content & Media Business Unit and Vice
President of Corporate Strategy. Earlier in his career, Fountain
was a principal at the venture capital firm Mayfield Fund, the
co-founder of network security firm Ingrian Networks (acquired by
SafeNet), and a faculty member at Stanford University where he
taught electrical engineering and computer science.
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F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) powers applications from development through
their entire lifecycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our
customers—enterprise businesses, service providers, governments,
and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing,
and secure digital experiences. For more information, go to f5.com.
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technologies.
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