Steve Walde

About Steve Walde

Steve brings to F5 more than 20 years of experience in enterprise sales, sales management and channel and business development. Steve began his career with the FBI where he worked on computer networking and forensics and then moved into the commercial technology sector. Steve has served as Director of National Accounts at Fortinet, Global Account Manager at Cisco Systems and was a Regional Director of Sales at Ethernet switch pioneer Kalpana. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Illinois University. Areas of expertise include: Infrastructure Networking, Enterprise Security Software, Subscription Billing Model, Major Account Acquisition and Management and strong working relationship with major channel partners.

Experience

1. Major Account Manager

   F5

   Aug 2015 — Present

   Responsible for working directly with top tier enterprise accounts to expand on existing application delivery requirements as well as the full suite of security and cloud solutions that F5 provides.

Education

• Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI

  Computer Forensics

• Southern Illinois University

  Bachelor of Science

Skills

• Information Security
• Solution Selling
• Crm
• Selling
• Start-Ups
• Managed Web Application Firewall
• Business Alliances
• Sales Process
• Business Development
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Software Industry
• Salesforce.com
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization
• Web Application Security
• Cisco Technologies
• Sales Operations
• Professional Services
• Network Security
• Mobile Devices
• Channel Sales
• Channel
• Demand Generation
• Account Management
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Management
• Product Marketing
• Networking
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Strategic Partnerships
• Partner Management
• Direct Sales
• Voip
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• Sales
• Saas
• Cloud Computing
• Managed Services