---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001048695-22-000031"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FFIV"
cik: "0001048695"
company_name: "F5, INC."
filed_at: "2022-11-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T11:42:16.693068+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# F5 EVP Haiyan Song to depart; product orgs to report to new CPO Kara Sprague

## Summary
- Haiyan Song, EVP & GM of Security and Distributed Cloud Services, announced departure effective as early as Feb 1, 2023.
- All product organizations will now report to Kara Sprague, newly appointed Chief Product Officer.
- Ms. Song will remain with F5 until at least February 1, 2023 to assist transition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001048695-22-000031
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FFIV
- cik: 0001048695
- company_name: F5, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-11-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869522000031/0001048695-22-000031-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869522000031/ffiv-20221027.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001048695-22-000031
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001048695-22-000031.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001048695-22-000031.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kara Sprague was appointed as Chief Product Officer at F5, INC..
  - Action: newly designated
  - Role: Chief Product Officer
  source text: On October 27, 2022, Haiyan Song, the Company’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Distributed Cloud Services, announced her intention to leave F5 in conjunction with the transition of all F5 product organizations to report into Kara Sprague as the Company’s newly designated Chief Product Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869522000031/0001048695-22-000031-index.htm
- Executive change
  Haiyan Song departed as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Distributed Cloud Services at F5, INC..
  - Action: announced her intention to leave
  - Role: Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Distributed Cloud Services
  source text: On October 27, 2022, Haiyan Song, the Company’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Distributed Cloud Services, announced her intention to leave F5 in conjunction with the transition of all F5 product organizations to report into Kara Sprague as the Company’s newly designated Chief Product Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869522000031/0001048695-22-000031-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.