Kristi Thiele elevated by Gigamon to vice president of global sales engineering

Gigamon, the industry leader in deep observability, announced Kristi Thiele's appointment to vice president of global sales engineering. Kristi will guide the Gigamon sales engineering team in helping clients minimize security blind spots and lower tool costs thanks to his more than 25 years of practical expertise. By supplying network-derived intelligence to clients' cloud, security, and observability solutions, the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline gives them hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures defense-in-depth and full performance management.

According to Doug Woodley, senior vice president of global sales at Gigamon, "Since joining Gigamon in 2022, Kristi has been a vital component of the Gigamon sales engineering team. Our dedication to creating a diverse and inclusive culture is the foundation of our success as the top vendor in the deep observability industry, and Kristi has played a significant role in contributing to our success. We anticipate Kristi's influence on our international sales engineering team as we seek to provide our clients with hybrid cloud network-derived analytics so they can operate quickly, stay safe, and advance innovation.”

Kristi has 25 years of experience as a sales engineer and leader in the security sector, and she contributes this expertise to the Gigamon executive team. As the senior director of global service provider sales engineering at Gigamon since February 2022, Kristi has assembled a top-tier team of sales engineers and given them the training they need to better meet the changing demands of clients. Before working at Gigamon, Kristi was Keysight Technologies' sales engineer director, where she spent almost seven years fostering connections with customers and partners.

“I'm proud to be the team leader for the sales engineers at Gigamon, a business with a strong commitment to promoting and elevating women in technology”, said Kristi. “I'm committed to establishing the framework for future generations of women to succeed in the sales engineering profession because sales engineering is a traditionally male-dominated sector. My goal is to increase the number of experts on this team so that every business can effectively integrate the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline into their hybrid cloud architecture.”

According to a recently published analysis by market intelligence company 650 Group, Gigamon will hold a 71 percent market share in 2022, making it the top provider in the deep observability industry. The deep observability market's revenue is anticipated to increase by 60% from 2022 to $470M in 2023, according to 650 Group. Also, the market is anticipated to increase at a 52 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $1.91 billion by 2027, with cloud and subscription-based options accounting for the majority of the revenue.