SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
April 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Gigamon Inc. (NYSE: GIMO), the industry leader in traffic
visibility solutions, announced today that Kim DeCarlis has joined Gigamon as chief
marketing officer (CMO). DeCarlis, a well-respected marketing
executive, built high performing marketing organizations at top
technology companies, most recently Imperva. At Gigamon, she will
oversee all aspects of global marketing including corporate
marketing, communications, product marketing and management, demand
generation, field and channel marketing, and customer programs.
"DeCarlis is a world-class leader of marketing organizations and
brings a stellar track record of enabling companies to become
highly visible by extending the presence of market-leading brands
across security, cloud, management and monitoring domains," said
Paul Hooper, CEO, Gigamon. "Her
strategic vision and ability to execute made her a natural fit for
our rapidly growing organization. Under her leadership, the company
will focus on driving greater awareness and demand for Gigamon
visibility solutions across global markets."
DeCarlis has over 25 years of marketing, sales, management and
leadership experience in growth-oriented technology companies. She
comes to Gigamon most recently from Imperva, where she served as
CMO and led global marketing. Prior to Imperva, she led the
worldwide marketing organization at BMC and spent five years as the
VP of Corporate Marketing at Citrix. Throughout her career,
DeCarlis held senior leadership and product marketing positions at
leading companies including Information Resources, Saba,
Documentum, Xerox and IBM.
"Gigamon is primed to define the evolving security and cloud
infrastructures with network visibility at their foundation," said
Kim DeCarlis, CMO, Gigamon. "The
opportunities are rich for Gigamon to expand its market presence
and articulate its key value proposition to both existing customers
and new prospects. This is where focused marketing comes into play,
to attract and influence a broader enterprise audience. I'm excited
to be on this journey to help Gigamon redefine the security
market."
DeCarlis is a frequent speaker at industry events on B2B
marketing and C-level marketing engagement and was recognized by
the Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of the "2010 Silicon
Valley Women of Influence." She is a board member of
Children's Discovery Museum of San
Jose, and Girls in Tech (GIT), a global nonprofit focused on
the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who
are passionate about technology. DeCarlis is also an advisor to
Entytle, Inc. and was a past board director for Watermark. She
holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Gigamon
Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO) provides active
visibility into physical, virtual and cloud network traffic,
enabling stronger security and superior performance. Gigamon's
Visibility Fabric™ and GigaSECURE®, the
industry's first Security Delivery Platform, deliver advanced
intelligence so that security, network, and application performance
management solutions in enterprise, government, and service
provider networks operate more efficiently and effectively. See
more at www.gigamon.com, the Gigamon Blog, or follow Gigamon on
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