Business leader with decades of experience at Aruba Networks,
Avaya Communications, and Cisco Systems to lead global sales and account
management team
F5
Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV)
today announced the hire of John DiLullo to lead its global sales
organization. As an Executive Vice President reporting to the CEO,
DiLullo is responsible for overseeing the company’s sales and channel
strategy as F5 further expands into the growth areas of application
security, service provider solutions, and cloud application deployment.
DiLullo will start on Monday, August 31, and be based in F5’s Seattle
headquarters.
“F5 has grown far beyond its hardware roots into a company delivering
hybrid application services on-premises, in the cloud, and as a
service,” said Manny Rivelo, President and CEO of F5 Networks. “Our
biggest growth opportunities are still ahead of us. We are excited to
have someone with John’s experience in market expansion, channel
management, and global networking sales join the team. With John’s
leadership, we will continue to evolve our sales force to better serve
our customers’ needs while maintaining the level of great service
they’ve come to expect from F5.”
DiLullo brings to F5 over 25 years of experience in global business,
sales, market and channel development, operations, and team management.
Prior to joining F5, he ran the Worldwide Sales and Services team at
Aruba Networks, through their acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. Before
this role, he served Avaya Communications in three progressive General
Manager roles—first as President of Asia-Pacific, then Latin America &
Canada, and ultimately the entire Americas Theater.
Before joining Avaya, DiLullo spent seven years at Cisco Systems, most
recently as Vice President of Channels, and three years at SonicWALL as
Vice President of Sales, Channels and Field Operations. He holds a B.S.
from Villanova University and was a Fellow and Ph.D. candidate at
Stanford University.
ABOUT F5
F5 (NASDAQ:
FFIV) provides solutions for an application world. F5 helps
organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, telecommunications,
and software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully
deliver applications and services to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5
solutions broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework
and a rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and orchestration
vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the infrastructure model
that best fits their needs over time. The world’s largest businesses,
service providers, government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5
to stay ahead of cloud, security, and mobility trends. For more
information, go to f5.com.
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