The Gigamon Board of Directors
Andrew Miller
Miller brings to the board more than 20 years of senior leadership experience in the telecommunications and networking industries. He was appointed to his current role as Polycom’s president and chief executive officer in May 2010 and later became a member of the board of directors. He joined the company in July 2009 as executive vice president of Global Field Operations, where he was responsible for Polycom's go-to-market strategy, including the sales, channel, alliances and sales engineering organizations.
Additionally, Miller is a former chairperson of the Young Presidents' Organization/Stanford Executive Education Program, a former fellow of the Society of Fellows at the Aspen Institute and a member of the Silicon Valley Executive Summit. He was also awarded CRN Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential Executives for 2010.
Corey Mulloy
Corey Mulloy has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2010, and as Chairman of the Board commencing March 2013. Since 1997, he has served in several roles at Highland Capital Partners and has been a general partner since 2005. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Mulloy worked at Robertson, Stephens & Company. Mr. Mulloy holds a B.A. degree from Swarthmore College and a M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.
We believe that Mr. Mulloy is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of his experience in the venture capital industry analyzing, investing in and serving on the boards of directors of technology companies, as well as his perspective as a representative of one of our largest stockholders.
Kenneth A. Goldman
Mr. Goldman serves as the chief financial officer of Yahoo!, where he is responsible for Yahoo!’s global finance functions including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury, and investor relations. He served as senior vice president, finance and administration, and chief financial officer at Fortinet, Inc., a unified threat management solutions company and at Siebel Systems, Inc., a provider of customer software solutions and services. Prior to 2000, he served as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer of Excite@Home Corporation and Sybase, Inc. He has also served as chief financial officer of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation and VLSI Technology, Inc.
Mr. Goldman was named among “America’s 15 Most Connected Capitalists” for 2010 by Forbes magazine and currently serves on the board of directors of BigBand Networks, Inc., Infinera, Inc. and NXP Semiconductor and several private companies. Mr. Goldman served on the board of Juniper Networks, Inc. until his resignation in January 2008 and Starent Networks until the company was sold to Cisco in 2009. He is currently on the board of trustees of Cornell University and was recently a member of the Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession, a public committee that made recommendations to encourage a more sustainable auditing profession (2008). He also previously served on the FASB’s primary advisory group, the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Goldman earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1971 and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1974.
Michael C. Ruettgers
Mike Ruettgers is Retired
Ruettgers joined EMC in 1988, and served as CEO from 1992 until January 2001, leading the company in a decade-long trajectory of accelerating profitable growth. From his arrival through year-end 2000, EMC's revenues grew from $120 million to nearly $9 billion. During his term as CEO, Ruettgers was named one of the "World's Top 25 Executives" by BusinessWeek. Ruettgers spent much of his early career with Raytheon, where he played a key role in the Patriot Missile Program. He is the Lead Director on the Board of Directors of the Raytheon Company and is also Chairman of the Board of Wolfson Microelectronics, a global leader in the supply of high- performance, mixed signal chips for the digital consumer market. Mr. Ruettgers sits on the Board of Orvis and Lahey Clinic. Ruettgers holds a BS from
Patrick Leong
Patrick is the current CTO of Gigamon and the key designer of a series of successful telecom and network analyzer products that have generated substantial revenues over the years. Prior to joining Gigamon, he was a Principal Engineer at Ciena (starting with Cyras before it was acquired), where he lead the engineering efforts in developing the company’s metro data products. Patrick also performed technical due diligence for Ciena in acquisition and partnering. Before Ciena, Patrick was the Manager of High Speed Products at the Sniffer Division of Network Associates, where he was in charge of the development of WAN and Gigabit Ethernet Sniffers.
A physicist by training, Patrick understands a broad range of technologies and has a track record of taking products from inception to market in a timely manner. Patrick holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University and has more than 10 patents in his name.
Paul Hooper
Paul is the CEO of Gigamon, and was previously the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. Paul is a networking and high tech industry veteran who joined Gigamon from Extreme Networks where he held numerous executive positions including Chief Marketing Officer, Vice President and General Manager for the Volume Products Group, and Chief Information Officer. Paul has held a broad range of leadership positions in marketing, product development, business management, and information technology within a range of organizations including Extreme Networks, myCFO, Inc., JDS Uniphase, Netscape Communications, and Sun Microsystems.
