Fastly Hires Cisco Exec as New CEO

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<em> –<&sol;em><&sol;strong> Fastly&comma; Inc&period;&comma; which operates a global edge cloud platform&comma; has appointed Todd Nightingale as the company’s next Chief Executive Officer&comma; effective September 1&comma; 2022&period; Nightingale will also join the Fastly Board of Directors upon assuming the role&period; He will succeed Joshua Bixby&comma; who&comma; as previously announced&comma; will step down as CEO and from Fastly’s Board of Directors&period; Bixby will remain with Fastly as an advisor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nightingale’s appointment culminates a broad search process to identify the company’s next leader&period; He joins Fastly from Cisco&comma; where he currently leads business strategy and development efforts for Cisco&&num;8217&semi;s multi-billion dollar networking portfolio as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Networking and Cloud&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Todd is a proven and passionate technology leader and we are thrilled to have him join our team&comma;” said David Hornik&comma; Lead Independent Director on the Fastly Board of Directors&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are confident that Todd’s deep background helping customers transform their infrastructures and digitize their businesses will be instrumental to strengthening Fastly’s technology and go-to-market strategy and lead the company into its next stage of growth&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Fastly is extraordinary at the things that make us unique&comma; including our incredibly powerful programmable edge cloud&comma; innovative performance-focused product and engineering&comma; and our unmatched support of customers as they build the next generation of globally performant&comma; secure and reliable applications&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Artur Bergman&comma; Fastly’s Founder&comma; Chief Architect and Executive Chairperson&period; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m confident in Todd&&num;8217&semi;s ability to lead the company with the rigor and energy needed to elevate Fastly to its next level of extraordinary technology and product growth&comma; including a strong go-to-market motion and operational strengths&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Fastly is delivering unparalleled application experiences for users around the world with exceptional flexibility&comma; security and performance&comma;” said Nightingale&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I&&num;8217&semi;m honored and grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the Fastly team&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During his time at Cisco&comma; Todd Nightingale led the Enterprise Networking and Cloud business as Executive Vice President and General Manager&period; He managed business strategy and development efforts for Cisco&&num;8217&semi;s multi-billion-dollar networking portfolio&period; Nightingale is known for his passionate technology leadership and his vision of powerful&comma; simple solutions for businesses&comma; schools&comma; and governments&period; Previously&comma; Nightingale was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco&&num;8217&semi;s Meraki business&period; His focus on delivering a simple&comma; secure&comma; digital workplace led to the expansion and growth of the Meraki portfolio&comma; making it the largest cloud-managed networking platform in the world&period; Nightingale joined Cisco with the Meraki acquisition in 2012&period; He previously held engineering and senior management positions at AirDefense&comma; where he was responsible for product development and guided the company through a successful acquisition by Motorola&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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