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Francois Locoh-donou

President, CEO & Director, F5

Search every verified Francois Locoh-donou interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. François Locoh-Donou, chairman, president, and CEO of F5, appeared at the Nasdaq MarketSite in July 2026 to mark the company’s 30th anniversary and rang the opening bell. In interviews, he described F5’s evolution from a hardware-focused load-balancing startup into a platform that delivers and secures applications and APIs. Locoh-Donou credited former chairman Al Higginson and F5 employees for the company’s longevity. On F5’s Q2 fiscal 2026 earnings call, Locoh-Donou reported 11% revenue growth, with product revenue up 22% — the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit product growth. He said the company was raising its full-year revenue outlook to 7–8% growth from 5–6%. Locoh-Donou stated that customers are recommitting to hardware alongside software adoption, citing $60 million in sales from customers who had previously stopped buying hardware. He described three forces reshaping customer operations: hybrid multicloud adoption, threat landscape expansion, and AI inference inflection. Locoh-Donou noted that F5 had generated approximately $50 million in sales from AI-related use cases in the first half of the fiscal year, up more than 200% year-over-year, and was approaching 100 customers using F5 for AI. He said the company had developed an integration with Nvidia’s BlueField technology, which he said helped AI factories generate 30 to 40% more tokens per GPU. Locoh-Donou also argued that AI models can now exploit application vulnerabilities in near real-time, making runtime security a higher priority for enterprises.

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