F5 Networks announced the appointment of Haiyan Song as executive vice president of Security.
Haiyan Song will join F5 Networks on January 4, 2021 from Splunk, where she led the Security business as senior vice president and general manager of Security Markets.
Haiyan Song will build on F5’s position as the second-largest global application security player, with over $750 million in security revenues, and drive the company’s next phase of growth in security.
“Haiyan is an industry thought leader and visionary with extensive cybersecurity and SaaS experience, including a track record of helping to grow Splunk’s Security business from $100 million to over $1 billion,” said Francois Locoh-Donou, president and CEO of F5 Networks.
F5 Networks is expecting its addressable opportunity within the application security market is expected to reach $15 billion by 2023 from $8 billion today.
“Haiyan’s industry knowledge, data analytics background, and deep domain expertise in security will support our efforts to capture this growth by securing every app anywhere as our customers adapt to their changing environments.”
In her more than 20-year career, Haiyan Song has held several leadership positions, including vice president and general manager at HP ArcSight, vice president of Engineering at ArcSight, and vice president of Engineering at SenSage. Haiyan Song started her career at IBM/Informix, building trusted regional database management systems for Federal customers.
Haiyan Song also currently serves on the board of CSG, a provider of revenue management and digital payments. Haiyan also served on the board of LLamasoft, an AI-powered supply chain analytics software company that was acquired by Coupa in November 2020.
She holds an M.S. from Florida Atlantic University and studied Computer Science in Tsinghua University in China.
