Grand Keynote: Scaling and Transforming Companies

Nikesh Arora joined as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Google, Inc. during a 10-year span, including senior vice president and chief business officer, president of global sales operations and business development, and president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Google, Nikesh held the role of chief marketing officer for the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was chief executive officer and founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002.

Nikesh serves on the board of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., a public Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company, and Tipping Point, a non-profit organization that fights poverty in the Bay Area. Previously, he served on the boards of SoftBank Group Corp., Sprint Corp., Colgate-Palmolive Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, among others. He holds an M.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University, an M.S. in finance from Boston College and a B. Tech. in electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University.

Ankur is an accomplished technology leader with over 20 years of experience building market leading products in security and enterprise technologies. As the Vice President of Products at Palo Alto Networks, he is responsible for driving the vision, strategy and the execution of the market leading public cloud security solution, Prisma Cloud,. He joined Palo Alto Networks through a successful acquisition of RedLock where he headed up the product organization.

Ankur has also held leadership positions in Cybersecurity companies such as CipherCloud, Symantec, Citrix and Cisco. Ankur holds BS in Electrical Engineering and MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. In his spare time, Ankur runs a Podcast, ZeroToExit, a tech podcast where he invites leaders to share deep insights into how to build great products and companies

Neelima is an accomplished technology leader with over 18 years of experience building market-leading products in enterprise security technologies. She serves as Sr. Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks where she is responsible for the vision, strategy and execution of the market-leading SOAR solution, Cortex XSOAR. Neelima joined Palo Alto Networks through Demisto acquisition in 2019. Neelima has also held product, engineering and customer success leadership roles in the next-gen endpoint security space at Symantec and McAfee. In her spare time, Neelima co-hosts a tech Podcast, ZeroToExit, where leaders share deep insights into how to build great products and companies.