WHALEN CHAD MICHAEL

About WHALEN CHAD MICHAEL

Chad Whalen is a seasoned technology sales executive and currently serves as Chief Revenue Officer at F5. In this role, he leads F5’s global go-to-market strategy and oversees the company’s combined sales and marketing functions, with responsibility for revenue growth, commercial execution, and customer expansion across the enterprise, service-provider, and public-sector markets. F5 announced this leadership structure in September 2024 as part of a broader effort to improve agility, productivity, and innovation, and Whalen was named to the CRO role as the company streamlined its revenue organization. Whalen’s F5 tenure began in 2017, when he joined the company to lead the Cloud Sales team. He later assumed broader commercial responsibilities, including Worldwide Sales leadership, before moving into the Chief Revenue Officer position. That progression reflects deep experience in networking, security, and SaaS business models, as well as a track record of managing large, geographically distributed teams. F5 describes him as a leader with more than 30 years of experience across Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. Before joining F5, Whalen held senior commercial and partnership roles at several technology companies. He led strategic alliances at Fortinet, worldwide sales and services at Jasper, Americas sales and field operations at Ciena, and global sales and marketing at World Wide Packets. Taken together, these roles point to substantial expertise in enterprise sales leadership, channel and alliance development, and international revenue scaling. His background is especially relevant in markets where customer relationships, enterprise deal execution, and cross-border commercial coordination are central to growth. Whalen earned a B.A. in Business Administration and Management from Eastern Washington University. Based on the available public information, he is best characterized as a revenue-focused executive with broad experience in application security, network infrastructure, and cloud software commercialization. His career at F5 shows a consistent progression from a cloud sales leadership role to enterprise-wide revenue responsibility, making him one of the company’s key operational leaders in the U.S. public-market technology sector.