Last month, Merritt started as Aviatrix’s chairman, CEO and president.

Merritt came to the Santa Clara, Calif.-based secure cloud networking vendor after more than seven years with Splunk, according to his LinkedIn account. Merritt left Splunk in 2021 as its CEO.

His resume includes about two years with Cisco, leaving the vendor in 2014 with the title of senior vice president of product and solution marketing.