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Subject:                 UW-PEI:  4-20-2000 / High-Tech Speaker Series--F5 NETWORKS

UW-PEI:  4-20-2000 / High-Tech Speaker Series--F5 NETWORKS

 

JEFF HUSSEY, founder, president, and CEO of F5 Networks

 

Northwest entrepreneurs--and their ability to put together innovative,

technology-intensive start-ups--have sparked amazing changes in your

world.

 

The Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation's High-Tech

Entrepreneurship Speaker Series is presenting the second speaker of

Spring Quarter this Thursday evening: Jeff Hussey, founder, president and CEO.

If you're interested in learning more about a company that is keeping

many of the Internet sites you know and love running smoothly, come listen!

 

For more information about the High-Tech series, call the Program in

Entrepreneurship and Innovation at (206) 685-9868 or visit our Web site

at http://depts.washington.edu/uwpei.

 

Firm:             F5 NETWORKS (www.f5.com)

 

Speaker:       JEFF HUSSEY, founder, president, and CEO

 

Date/Time:  Thursday, April 20th, at 6:30 pm.  Reception following.

 

Place:  Seafirst Executive Education Center, Boeing Auditorium

 

Founded in 1996, this Seattle-based company made headlines as one of

ComputerWorld's "Top 100 Emerging Companies 2000."  As the leading

provider of Web server load-balancing systems to keep critical sites up

during even the heaviest traffic, F5 strengthened

its #1 position after a very successful IPO in June 1999.  Rated the

17th highest performing IPO of the year, F5 had a stock price increase of

1060% in the first six months.  With more than 1,300 customers--including most

recently The Sharper Image, and HomeGrocer.com--F5 has stayed on the

fast track, increasing sales by 611% in 1999.  With 187 employees in

1999, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has offices in

Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Columbus, Los Angeles, New York, San

Francisco, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, The

Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

 

Jeff Hussey, co-founder and president, F5, holds a BA in finance from

Seattle Pacific University and an MBA from the University of

Washington.  Hussey also founded Pacific Comlink, an inter-exchange

carrier providing frame relay and Internet access services to the

Pacific Rim, in 1993 and acted as president until 1995.  Other professional work

experience includes vice president of Alexander Hutton Capital, an

investment banking firm.

 

We encourage you to be one of the many to join us this Thursday.  Take

this opportunity to learn about a company that helps keep thousands of

mission-critical systems on the Web running.  We look forward to seeing

you!

 

The High-Tech Entrepreneurship Speaker Series is made possible, in part,

by grants and funding from the Herbert B. Jones Foundation, the

Washington Research Foundation, and GrayCary, with support from the

UW Business School and the Department of Computer Science and

Engineering.