SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Gigamon ® Inc. GIMO +1.23% , a leader in traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Visibility Fabric ™ architecture, today announced the appointment of Mike Burns as chief financial officer, effective immediately.
“Mike is an accomplished executive with significant financial and operational experience and we are pleased to have him join the Gigamon team. His experience as the CFO for a high growth technology company addressing the cloud computing and data networking markets will be an asset to Gigamon and we look forward to his financial leadership,” said Paul Hooper, CEO of Gigamon.
“I was drawn to Gigamon because of its history of innovation and its technology leadership in an exciting and growing market. The commitment of its employees and management team are compelling and I am excited at the opportunity to help lead the company through its next phase of growth,” said Burns.
Burns brings over two decades of experience in finance, strategic planning, M&A and growth investing in public technology companies. Before joining Gigamon, Burns served as chief financial officer of Volterra Semiconductor. During his six year tenure as CFO, Volterra doubled revenue, expanded gross margins and tripled operating profit, prior to the company’s acquisition by Maxim Integrated in 2013. Prior to Volterra, Burns spent fifteen years at Intel Corporation where he held several senior financial positions.
Burns received a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. He went on to receive a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About the Visibility Fabric architecture
At Gigamon we realized that delivering the visibility essential to manage, analyze and secure the complex system that is the IT infrastructure requires a new approach. With millions of traffic flows across thousands of endpoints, visibility needs to be pervasive, intelligent and dynamic. Using our patented, unique technology, we created an innovative new approach for delivering this visibility called the Visibility Fabric architecture. This new approach is intelligent and versatile in its ability to enable visibility into the network. For more information visit http://www.gigamon.com/traffic-visibility-fabric .
About Gigamon
Gigamon provides an intelligent Visibility Fabric ™ architecture for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with pervasive and dynamic intelligent visibility of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network. Through patented technologies and centralized management, the Gigamon GigaVUE portfolio of high availability and high density products intelligently delivers the appropriate network traffic to management, analysis, compliance and security tools. With over eight years’ experience designing and building traffic visibility products in the US, Gigamon solutions are deployed globally across vertical markets including over half of the Fortune 100 and many government and federal agencies. www.gigamon.com