Sachi Sambandan MBA ’99 has been appointed senior vice president of engineering at Gigamon, a leader in traffic visibility solutions. Sambandan joins Gigamon from VMware, where he recently served as vice president for the company’s R&D Hybrid Cloud Services, responsible for all aspects of product development as well as building and managing a team of approximately 180 engineers.  Prior to VMware, Sambandan spent ten years at Force10 Networks as vice president of engineering, developing and expanding Force10’s product roadmap. Sambandan received a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from India’s College of Engineering in Guindy, Madras. He went on to earn a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland and a master’s in business administration from Santa Clara University.