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Alvina Antar

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Alvina Antar

Chief Digital Officer at F5 (the company’s first-ever CDO, since Jan 2025) — a career enterprise technology leader who was previously CIO at Okta and Zuora’s first-ever CIO.

Snapshot

  • Now: Chief Digital Officer, F5 (Jan 2025–present) — leading F5’s transformation from hardware to software/subscription and toward a “data & AI-first enterprise.”
  • Archetype (for init): Strategic / Operator — CIO buyer-angel (BULLSEYE). A sitting enterprise CDO + multi-time CIO is the exact IT buyer init sells to.
  • Warm path: Okta network — overlapped Ryan Carlson (Okta CMO 2016–2021) during her Okta CIO tenure (2020–2024).

Why an init.inc angel target

  • The bullseye validator. init’s strongest angel archetype is a real enterprise IT buyer. Antar has been CIO/CDO at three enterprises (Dell→Zuora→Okta→F5) — her check is a buyer endorsing init’s AI-ITSM / “AI employees for back-office work” category.
  • Active angel/advisor posture. She already advises early-stage startups (SGNL, SquareX) and sits on boards (Couchbase 2021–2025), so an init strategic-angel check fits her established pattern.
  • AI-first mandate. Her current F5 remit is explicitly enabling a “data & AI-first enterprise” — directly aligned with init’s thesis, and she’s a credible reference into other CIO/CDO buyers.

Conflict screen

  • Clean. Her career — F5 (app security/delivery), Okta (identity), Zuora (subscription billing), Dell, Couchbase board (database) — is all adjacent enterprise tech, not init’s ITSM/AI-MSP space. Being an exec at these is career history, not a conflict. Her startup advisory roles (SGNL = identity authorization; SquareX = browser security) are also outside init’s competitor set. No angel/advisor/board check in any init competitor found.

Background

  • F5 (Jan 2025–present): Chief Digital Officer — F5’s first-ever CDO, leading digital transformation across a hybrid/multi-cloud/AI world.
  • Okta (Aug 2020–Mar 2024): CIO — led the Business Technology org; scaled the company through durable growth.
  • Zuora (2014–2020): first-ever CIO — drove growth from ~300M and took the company through its 2018 IPO.
  • Dell (~17 years): began as a software engineer; led M&A integration through the hardware-to-software evolution.
  • Board / advisory: Couchbase board director (2021–2025); advisor to SGNL (Oct 2025) and SquareX (Apr 2026)^[single-source]; BUILD advisory board.
  • Education: B.S. Computer Science, University of Houston. Co-founded the Silicon Valley CIO Women’s Network.

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