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Erik Gaston
Erik Gaston oversees all Global Executive Engagement in the Global Sales organization at Tanium. A CIO / CTO by trade, he has spent most of his career as a C-level executive leading enterprise technology organizations in the space of modernization, full stack observability and digital / cloud transformation across a host of industries including Financial Services, Global Trade/ Supply Chain, and e-Commerce. Erik joined Tanium in November of 2021 initially as the CIO for Financial Services, a position he still holds, and was soon after asked to lead the Global Executive Engagement Team. Erik partners with our global customers and prospect organizations to drive platform visibility, enterprise maturity and security solutions at scale…he is a passionate learner, coach and business partner for Tanium customers. Erik is bi-lingual German English, is a member of the NJ Society for Information Management (NJSIM) and is also on the Advisory Board at New Jersey Institute of Technology and is a guest lecturer at the University.