Brocade names Christine Heckart as CMO

SAN JOSE, USA: Brocade announced the appointment of Christine Heckart to the position of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

In this role, Ms. Heckart will be responsible for the strategic direction of Brocade's global marketing organisation, helping to position the company as the network provider of choice to the world's data centres. Ms. Heckart will report directly to Brocade's CEO, Lloyd Carney.

In her new role, Ms. Heckart will be instrumental in driving the strategy to generate brand awareness and to develop and execute demand generation programs across the globe. These Marketing initiatives will align and support the company's business strategy for growth built on leading the industry in data centre fabrics and driving market penetration in the emerging Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) arenas.