Management Team
| Dave Stevens | Founder and CEO |
| Nir Zuk | Founder and CTO |
| Rajiv Batra | Founder and Vice President, Engineering |
| Lee Klarich | Vice President, Product Management |
| Larry Link | Vice President, Worldwide Sales |
| Yuming Mao | Founder and Chief Architect |
| Steve Mullaney | Vice President, Marketing |
Dave Stevens
Founder and CEO
Dave Stevens has a strong track record as a highly effective leader in developing companies as well as more established ones. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks in 2005, Dave was a venture partner at Foundation Capital, where he was responsible for investments in the communications, computing, storage, and wireless sectors. Previously, Dave served as the CEO and Vice President of Business Development for Rhapsody Networks, a pioneer in the intelligent storage switching market, which was acquired by Brocade Communications in 2003. Dave has also held a variety of executive management positions at leading communications companies such as Nortel, Bay Networks, and SynOptics Communications.
Nir Zuk
Founder and CTONir Zuk brings a wealth of network security expertise and industry experience to Palo Alto Networks. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks, Nir was CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure, a pioneer in intrusion prevention and detection appliances. Nir was also a principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies and was one of the developers of stateful inspection technology.
Rajiv Batra
Founder and Vice President, EngineeringRajiv Batra has extensive experience managing engineering teams through times of strong growth. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Peribit, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2005. While at Peribit, Rajiv assembled a strong engineering team developing best-in-class application acceleration platforms. Rajiv also co-founded VitalSigns Software and served as Vice President of Engineering at Bay Networks.
Lee Klarich
Vice President, Product Management
Lee Klarich brings a strong track record in network security product management to Palo Alto Networks. Lee was Director of Product Management for Juniper Networks, where was he responsible for firewall/VPN platforms and software. He joined Juniper Networks through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition, where he managed the same product line. Prior to NetScreen Technologies, Lee held various positions at Excite@Home and Packard Bell-NEC.
Larry Link
Vice President, Worldwide SalesLarry Link brings to Palo Alto Networks a wealth of business experience in operational roles at top-tier start-up companies and leading high tech firms. Larry has a 20-year track record of successfully managing sales, customer service, and marketing programs for leading information technology companies including Juniper Networks, Neoteris, Excite@Home, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett-Packard. Most recently, Larry led the Sales, Service and Business Development departments at Silver Peak Systems, which offers a WAN optimization solution. Larry has also held vice president positions at Juniper Networks, Neoteris, and the @Work division of Excite@Home. Earlier in his career, Larry held sales and sales management positions at Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard.
Yuming Mao
Founder and Chief ArchitectYuming Mao brings to Palo Alto Networks an extensive knowledge of platform architecture and a proven track record. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Yuming was Chief Architect and a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks, which he joined through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition. At NetScreen, he was one of the initial engineering architects. Throughout his time at NetScreen and Juniper, Yuming was actively involved in defining the hardware and software architecture of NetScreen's industry-leading firewall/VPN platforms. Prior to NetScreen, Yuming was a senior engineer at SAP Labs.
Steve Mullaney
Vice President, Marketing
Steve Mullaney has more than 20 years of marketing, product management, and engineering experience in networking and information security. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Steve was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Blue Coat Systems, where he helped grow the company's annual run rate from $40 million to $200 million. Steve has held vice president positions at Force10 Networks, Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco), and ShoreTel. Steve spent 10 years at SynOptics and Bay Networks in various marketing, product management, and engineering roles, culminating with his role as Vice President of Enterprise Marketing responsible for products contributing over $2 billion in annual revenue. Before SynOptics, he held various design engineering positions at GTE Government Systems.
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