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Fastly Strengthens Leadership Team with Appointments of New Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Information Security Officer and General Counsel
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today announced two new members to its executive team,
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[{"type":"text","content":" SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nFastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today announced two new members to its executive team, as well as a key management promotion. Peter Alexander will be joining Fastly as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Marshall Erwin has joined as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Further complementing the management team, Karen Greenstein has been promoted to General Counsel.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230731458036/en/Karen Greenstein, General Counsel, Fastly (Photo: Business Wire)\nAlexander is a seasoned marketing executive with more than 25 years of technology marketing, product strategy, and product management experience for growth focused technology brands. He joins Fastly from Check Point Software Technologies, a global leader in cyber security. During his six-year tenure as CMO, he drove the company’s go-to-market strategy, scaled demand generation, and elevated brand and reputation. Prior to Check Point he served at Harmonic, a leader in video delivery infrastructure, as CMO, and at Cisco where he led multiple marketing and product management functions.\n\n\nAlexander holds a B.Eng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Bradford, UK, an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, and received his EMSc from the London School of Economics in Behavioral Science.\n\n\nHe officially starts on August 1 and will be based in San Francisco.\n\n\n“Peter is an incredible strategic marketer with a proven track record of leading and building technology brands, and I’m excited to have him join our leadership team,” said Todd Nightingale, CEO at Fastly. “His brand development experience, entrepreneurial spirit, and expertise in scaling high-performing teams is a powerful combination. I’m excited about the vision he’ll bring to Fastly as we continue to increase demand generation to grow our business.”\n\n\nMarshall Erwin, who recently joined Fastly as Chief Information Security Officer, is a highly respected information security executive. Erwin, who was previously Chief Security Officer at Mozilla, was instrumental in helping to build the company's reputation as a strong defender of its end-users. Erwin previously served in the US intelligence community, working on...