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Fastly Welcomes New Members to Board of Directors
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), the world’s fastest global edge cloud network provider, today announced that it has appointed
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[{"type":"text","content":" SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nFastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), the world’s fastest global edge cloud network provider, today announced that it has appointed Vanessa Smith, Senior Vice President, Global Go-to-Market at ServiceNow and Richard Daniels, former Chief Information Officer of Kaiser Permanente, to its board of directors effective November 1, 2021. Kelly Wright and Sunil Dhaliwal have also resigned after many years of service on Fastly’s board.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211103006167/en/Vanessa Smith, Senior Vice President, Global Go-to-Market at ServiceNow; new addition to Fastly's board of directors. (Photo: Business Wire)\n“We’re thrilled to welcome Vanessa and Richard to the Fastly Board as we deliver an even more powerful and secure Internet for all,” said Artur Bergman, Executive Chairperson of Fastly. “Their vast experience across security, healthcare, and digital transformation makes them extraordinarily qualified to help us accelerate our leadership in Compute@Edge and security. On behalf of the Fastly team, I’d also like to thank Kelly for her enlightening insights and Sunil for his invaluable guidance and support.”\n\nVanessa Smith said, “I am very excited to be joining the incredible Fastly team. With Fastly’s market leadership in edge cloud and security, I look forward to bringing my experience in scaling effective go-to-market strategies and deep understanding of the voice of the customer to the Fastly Board.”\n\nRichard Daniels said, “Fastly’s leadership position in the cloud and focus on combining edge computing with security makes it an exciting time to help steer the company towards continued growth. With Fastly’s focus on supporting companies through their digital transformation journeys, I’m looking forward to applying my background as a business technology leader on the Board.”\n\n“After conducting an extensive search, our committee unanimously recommended Vanessa and Richard to the Fastly board. We're confident that they will be outstanding independent directors, making the interests of our shareholders and other stakeholders a priority,” said Aida Alvarez, Chair, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.\n\nVanessa Smith is a digital technology leader with more than 20 years of experience. She joined ServiceNow i...