Tom Gillis

Tom Gillis is the SVP/GM of the Network and Security Business Unit at VMware. Prior to joining VMware, Tom Gillis was CEO of Bracket Computing, a company he founded in December 2011 with a vision to re-imagine enterprise computing. Before starting Bracket, Gillis was VP/GM of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems, leasing teams responsible for Ciscos entire Network and Content Security product portfolio, including firewalls, IPS, VPN, and email security and web security gateways. Prior to Cisco, Gillis was VP of Marketing and part of the founding team of IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco in 2007). Gillis received a BSEE from Tufts, an MSEE from Northwestern, and an MBA from Harvard.