Eric Gaither

Eric Gaither is a senior marketing executive who builds resilient brands and marketing organizations that scale in complex technology environments. Across two decades in enterprise technology and cybersecurity, he has led brand strategy teams through critical inflection points, including multiple acquisitions, divestitures, and market transformations.

He most recently served as the Head of Brand and Communications for Mandiant at Google Cloud, where he architected the brand integration following Google’s acquisition. In this role, he unified a diverse security portfolio under a single platform narrative while maintaining the market-leading differentiation of Mandiant’s threat intelligence. This followed his tenure as Vice President of Global Brand and Communications at Mandiant, where he successfully relaunched the company as an independent brand following the divestiture of FireEye products.

Earlier in his career at FireEye, Eric managed the brand architecture and corporate restructuring that separated the Mandiant product business from the solution business. He led a global rebrand that modernized the visual identity system and established a co-branded architecture to preserve equity during the transition. Eric also served as Creative Director at Brocade, where he developed the brand foundation that supported the company’s evolution from hardware to software.

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