Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer · F5, INC. (FFIV)

Cooper Werner

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Cooper Werner as a named executive officer of F5; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$3,656,085

5th of 6 named executive officers at F5 by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for F5, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed January 26, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Cooper Werner compensation by year

F5 Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as F5 reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$500,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$2,680,424
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$447,280
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$28,381
Total$3,656,085

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: F5, INC. DEF 14A filed January 26, 2026, accession 0001048695-26-000012, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the F5, INC. filed document, accession 0001048695-26-000012. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed January 26, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU4,407$1,424,298—
PSU2,718$878,430—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in F5, INC.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments F5 discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$900,000$1,863,514$25,775$2,814,289

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in F5, INC.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

F5’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
François Locoh-DonouPresident and Chief Executive Officer$23,039,819
Tom FountainChief Operating Officer$8,249,875
Chad WhalenChief Revenue Officer$6,532,314
John MaddisonExecutive VP and Chief Marketing Officer$5,295,456
Cooper Werner · this pageExecutive VP and Chief Financial Officer$3,656,085
Frank PelzerFormer Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer$2,925,351

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