Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, today announced the promotion of Kristi Thiele to vice president of worldwide sales engineering.
With over 25 years of hands-on experience, Thiele will lead the Gigamon sales engineering team forward, helping customers to eliminate security blind spots and reduce tool costs. The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline delivers network-derived intelligence to customers’ cloud, security, and observability tools, bringing defense-in-depth and complete performance management to their hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
“Since joining Gigamon in 2022, Kristi has been an integral part of the Gigamon sales engineering team," said Doug Woodley, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Gigamon.
“Our success as the leading vendor in the deep observability market is underpinned by our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive culture and Kristi has played a big part in contributing to our success.
“We look forward to the impact Kristi will have on our global sales engineering team as we strive to empower our customers with hybrid cloud network-derived intelligence so they can run fast, stay secure, and accelerate innovation.”
Thiele brings robust leadership experience to the Gigamon executive team, which she developed through 25 years as a sales engineer and leader within the security industry.
Thiele joined Gigamon in February 2022 as the senior director of worldwide service provider sales engineering, building a world-class team of sales engineers and equipping them with the knowledge necessary to better serve customers’ evolving needs.
Prior to joining Gigamon, Thiele served as the sales engineer director for Keysight Technologies, where she worked for nearly seven years to enhance client and partner relationships.
“I’m honoured to be leading the team of sales engineers, especially at Gigamon, a company that has a clear commitment to empowering and uplifting women in technology,” said Thiele.
“Sales engineering is a male-dominated field, and I am dedicated to laying the groundwork for future generations of women to thrive in the sales engineer role. It’s my mission to expand this team of professionals to enable every organisation to successfully implement the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline into their hybrid cloud infrastructure.”
Gigamon was recognised recently as the leading vendor in the deep observability market in 2022 with a 71 percent market share, according to a newly released report by market intelligence firm 650 Group. According to 650 Group, revenue within the deep observability market is projected to reach $470M in 2023, up 60 percent from 2022. Furthermore, by 2027, the market is forecasted to reach $1.91B, a 52 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) with cloud and subscription-based offerings driving most of the revenue.
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