Observability Vendor Gigamon Promotes Shane Buckley to CEO

The Santa Clara, California-based deep observability vendor plans to broaden its portfolio and add more functionality to safeguard data in motion regardless of if it resides in a physical, virtual or cloud network. Buckley started today as Gigamon’s CEO and replaces Paul Hooper, who had led the company since December 2012 and will continue as a member of the company’s board of directors. “I’ve got a really good understanding of our company and our markets and our solutions, why we win, and what we need to do to improve,” Buckley tells Information Security Media Group. “This is more of a gentle transition than it is a 90-degree turn.” Buckley joined Gigamon in July 2018 as president and chief operating officer. He ran every department except for human resources and finance. Departments under Buckley’s purview spanned the gamut from product strategy, engineering, execution and services to sales and marketing, he tells ISMG (see: How to Maximize Application Intelligence).