Infoblox Appoints Ashish Gupta as Chief Marketing Officer

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - November 17, 2015) - Infoblox Inc. (NYSE: BLOX), the network control company, today announced Ashish Gupta has joined Infoblox as executive vice president and chief marketing officer, effective immediately. Gupta is responsible for the strategic direction of Infoblox's global corporate and product marketing organization.

In his new role, Gupta will report to Infoblox president and chief executive officer, Jesper Andersen, and drive the worldwide strategies for brand awareness, go-to-market programs, and demand-generation initiatives. These marketing programs will align with and support the company's business strategy for growth built on extending its industry leadership in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) into categories such as security, cloud, and analytics.

"Ashish is a proven leader in business-to-business technology marketing, with deep experience in creating and managing innovative programs that drive brand awareness and sales growth," said Jesper Andersen, president and chief executive officer of Infoblox. "I look forward to working with Ashish on accelerating the growth of Infoblox by refining the ways in which we position and communicate the value of next-generation network security and control."

Gupta joins Infoblox from Actian, which delivers a high-performance platform for enterprise-grade SQL analytics at scale, where he was chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development. Previously, Gupta was chief marketing officer and senior vice president for corporate development at Vidyo, which provides a leading software-based video conferencing platform. Before Vidyo, he was an integral member of the executive team that launched Microsoft's Lync solution, leading the business development and strategy team and channel sales, as well as the marketing team for the Microsoft Office division's unified communications group. Prior to Microsoft, Gupta held leadership positions at Alcatel/Genesys Telecommunications, Telera, Deloitte Consulting, and Hewlett-Packard.

"Infoblox has a great story to tell and I'm excited to have the opportunity to help drive the next wave of growth for the company," said Gupta. "The world of enterprise and service-provider networking is being transformed by new technologies, new security threats, and modern connected business processes. With thousands of customers relying on our network-control solutions to protect and scale their networks, Infoblox has the credibility to be a trusted partner for IT organizations looking to get ahead of these changes."

About Infoblox

Infoblox (NYSE: BLOX) delivers critical network services that protect Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, automate cloud deployments, and increase the reliability of enterprise and service provider networks around the world. As the industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, the category known as DDI, Infoblox (www.infoblox.com) reduces the risk and complexity of networking.

Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements -- Infoblox

Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. As such, this release is subject to the safe harbors created by U.S. Federal Securities Laws. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks that there may be design flaws in the company's products, shifts in customer demand and the IT services market in general, shifts in strategic relationships, delays in the ability to deliver products, or announcements by competitors. These and other risks may be detailed from time to time in Infoblox's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which may be obtained from www.sec.gov. Infoblox is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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