CMO finds new berth at F5

F5 Networks has recruited an ex-Veritas CMO to be its own chief marketing officer.

Ben Gibson became Veritas CMO in June last year, joining from a CMO position at Aruba Networks in January 2011. Gibson will be responsible for overseeing the company’s global marketing strategy as F5 further expands into the growth areas of application security and cloud application deployment. He was a marketing veep at Cisco before that, and becomes an EVP and CMO at F5 Networks. Lynn Lucas became Veritas CMO in July 2016. Symantec sold its Veritas unit to private equity house The Carlisle Group in August 2015 for $8bn. ®