François Locoh-Donou

François Locoh-Donou has served as the President and CEO of F5 since April 2017, leveraging nearly two decades of experience in enterprise technology to drive product and operational innovation. Concurrently, François Locoh-Donou is a Board Member at Capital One and co-founder and Chairman of Cajou Espoir, a cashew-processing facility in Togo that employs hundreds, primarily women. Prior to F5, François Locoh-Donou was Chief Operating Officer at Ciena, overseeing a significant portion of the company's global workforce and driving market share growth in optical networking. François Locoh-Donou's educational background includes an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Master’s degrees in Optical Communications and Physics Engineering.