Gigamon Appoints New Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer

Dave Arkley and Shane Buckley join Gigamon Executive Team to help drive the next wave of operational excellence and global growth

Santa Clara, Calif. – July 10, 2018 – Gigamon, Inc. (“Gigamon”), the company leading the convergence of network and security operations to help organizations improve their security stance, today announced two additions to its executive team. Dave Arkley is joining Gigamon as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Shane Buckley will be the company’s new President and Chief Operating Officer (COO).

Dave Arkley brings extensive global finance, software, and operational experience to the Gigamon team. Arkley has spent the last 11 of his over 20 year career as a CFO, most recently with International Decision Systems, and previously with Vertafore, Edifecs, Parallels and Itron. With experience leading the growth and transformation of cloud-based software and services enterprises, as well as acquisition and partnership programs, Arkley will play a key role in the Gigamon growth strategy.

Shane Buckley adds a deep background as a technology leader across the networking, security and infrastructure markets to the Gigamon team. Buckley is joining from Xirrus where he was CEO prior to their 2017 acquisition by Riverbed. Before joining Xirrus, Buckley served as a general manager and senior vice president at NETGEAR and held various executive leadership positions at Rohati Systems, Nevis Networks, Juniper Networks, Peribit and 3Com Corp. Buckley’s exceptional 20-year track record driving operational and organizational success will help propel global business success for Gigamon.

“Dave and Shane bring a wealth of knowledge to our exceptional leadership team and their proven business acumen in high growth, global markets will be a tremendous asset as we navigate the rapidly evolving cybersecurity space,” said Paul Hooper, CEO of Gigamon. “We look forward to leveraging their business, financial and strategy skills as we continue to execute our next phase of growth plans.”

About Gigamon

Gigamon is the company leading the convergence of network and security operations to help organizations reduce complexity and increase efficiency of their security stack. The Company’s GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform is a next generation network packet broker that helps customers make threats more visible across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments, deploy resources faster and maximize the performance of their security tools. Global 2000 companies and government agencies rely on Gigamon solutions to stop tool sprawl and save costs. Learn how you can make your infrastructure more resilient, more agile and more secure at www.gigamon.com, on our blog and Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

 

 

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