Mr. Szabados currently serves as a Senior Advisor for NETSCOUT and previously served as NETSCOUT’s Chief Operating Officer from April 2007 to May 2025. During his tenure as Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Szabados was critical in helping lead NetScout’s key functional areas as NETSCOUT nearly tripled in size, including the $2.3 billion acquisition of the Danaher Communications Business in 2015.
A veteran of the enterprise networking industry, prior to joining NETSCOUT in 1997, Mr. Szabados held senior leadership roles with companies including UB Networks, SynOptics/Bay Networks, and MIPS Corporation following engineering and product management roles at Intel Corporation and Apple.
Mr. Szabados holds a BSEE from UC Irvine, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.