Awards & Recognition
★Seattle Business Magazine 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award
★Puget Sound Business Journal 2013 Executive of the Year
★Best in Business Awards 2012 Executive of the Year (silver category)
★Business Insider 50 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech (2013)
★CRN Top 25 Innovators (2012)
★GeekWire Top 25 Newsmakers of the Year (2011)
Notable Facts
→Led F5 Networks as CEO from 2000-2015 and again 2015-2017, growing revenue from $108M to $2B
→Successfully navigated company through dot-com crash when stock dropped from $160 to under $10
→Oversaw F5's addition to S&P 500 index during his tenure
→Serves on multiple Fortune 500 company boards including Nutanix, Tableau, and ExtraHop
→Born in Scotland, holds B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Glasgow
→Previously held executive roles at IBM and Sequent Computer Systems
→Wikipedia page documenting his business career and achievements