Christine Heckart

As Senior Vice President, Ecosystems, and Chief Marketing Officer, Christine Heckart leads the Brocade global marketing team to drive preference and support the company’s business strategies to lead in data center networking, Network Functions Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking. Heckart joins Brocade with more than 25 years of experience in high tech. She has served as a member of the board of directors of Lam Research, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment to the semiconductor industry since 2011. Prior to joining Brocade, Heckart was executive vice president of Strategy, Marketing, People and Systems at ServiceSource, a SaaS provider in recurring revenue management. She has also held CMO roles at NetApp and Juniper Networks, served as general manager of TV, Video and Music Business at Microsoft, and was president of TeleChoice, Inc. Heckart graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Arts in economics