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Jeff Christianson

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Jeff Christianson has served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for F5 Networks since October 2006. Before joining F5, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Western Wireless Corporation, a wireless service provider based in Bellevue, Washington. From 1996 to January 2000, Christianson was Senior Vice President of Business Development, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a developer of game-based entertainment products which became a subsidiary of Hasbro in 1999. From 1992 through March 1996, he served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Heart Technology, Inc., a medical device company. Christianson was also a partner at Seattle law firm Stafford Frey Cooper before becoming a corporate general counsel. He is a graduate of Whitman College and holds a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law.


John McAdam President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
Andy Reinland Executive Vice President and Chief Finance Officer
John Rodriguez Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
Karl Triebes Executive Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technical Officer
Edward J. Eames Executive Vice President of Business Operations
Mark Anderson Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Dan Matte Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
Jeff Christianson Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Manuel Rivelo Executive Vice President of Security and Strategic Solutions

Erik Giesa SVP of Product Management and Product Marketing
Laurie Likai SVP of Human Resources
Mark Kramer SVP Customer Support
Mark Terenzoni SVP Global Manufacturing
Ryan Kearney SVP Product Development
Dean Darwin SVP Worldwide Partner Organization
Thorsten Freitag SVP EMEA Sales
Dave Feringa SVP Americas Sales
Christian Hentschel SVP Japan and Asia Pacific Sales