---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001048695-24-000107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FFIV"
cik: "0001048695"
company_name: "F5, INC."
filed_at: "2024-07-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T14:48:47.521382+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# F5 CFO Frank Pelzer to retire by end of Q1 2025; Edward Cooper Werner named successor

## Summary
- Frank Pelzer, EVP and CFO, plans to retire during F5's first fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31, 2024.
- Edward Cooper Werner, current SVP of Finance, will be appointed CFO upon Pelzer's retirement.
- Pelzer will continue in his role and assist with the transition until his retirement date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001048695-24-000107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FFIV
- cik: 0001048695
- company_name: F5, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-07-30T23:59:59+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/1048695/000104869524000107/0001048695-24-000107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869524000107/ffiv-20240726.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001048695-24-000107.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Edward Cooper Werner was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at F5, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: his intended successor, Edward Cooper Werner, the Company’s current Senior Vice President of Finance, who is slated to be appointed upon Mr. Pelzer’s retirement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869524000107/0001048695-24-000107-index.htm
- Executive change
  Frank Pelzer departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at F5, INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On July 26, 2024, Frank Pelzer, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of F5, Inc. (the “Company”), informed the Company of his plans to retire during the Company’s first fiscal quarter 2025, which ends December 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869524000107/0001048695-24-000107-index.htm

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