What Happened?
Berkeley, CA-based Tanium Appointed Eric Brown as Chief Operating Officer
About the Company
Tanium gives the world`s largest enterprises and government organizations the unique power to secure, control, and manage millions of endpoints across the enterprise within seconds. Serving as the “central nervous system” for enterprises, Tanium empowers security and IT operations teams to ask questions about the state of every endpoint across the enterprise in plain English, retrieve data on their current and historical state, and execute change as necessary, all within seconds. With the unprecedented speed, scale, and simplicity of Tanium, organizations now have complete and accurate information on the state of endpoints at all times to more effectively protect against modern day threats and realize new levels of efficiency in IT operations.
About the Person
Eric Brown is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Tanium, where he leads all aspects of its financial, operations and administrative functions including finance, human resources, legal, IT and facilities. Eric brings 20 years of corporate financial and operational leadership and public company CFO experience to Tanium. Previously, Eric was CFO and COO of Polycom, a multinational corporation that develops video, voice and content collaboration and communication technology. Eric also previously served as CFO of Electronic Arts Inc., CFO and COO of McAfee, Inc. (now Intel Security) and President and CFO of MicroStrategy, Inc. Eric has also held senior international finance roles at Grand Metropolitan in addition to co-founding Datasage, a marketing and analytics software company. Eric currently serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committees for Electronics for Imaging, Inc. and International Game Technology. Eric has a B.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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