Ecosystems Leadership Team

Leadership Team

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Leadership Team

Meet our ecosystems leadership team

Get to know the innovation-minded people at Palo Alto Networks who help ensure our global NextWave partner community is well-supported, our Technology Partner Program is thriving, and that we’re doing our part to realize the greatest potential from all our valued partnerships.

Global Leaders

Prem Iyer Senior Vice President, Global Ecosystems

Tom Evans Vice President of Worldwide Channels

Pamela Cyr Vice President of Technical Partnerships

James Beasley Vice President, Cloud Engagement, AWS

Tom Barsi Vice President of Cortex Ecosystems

Senior Vice President, Global Ecosystems

Prem Iyer

Prem Iyer is the Senior Vice President, Global Ecosystems at Palo Alto Networks, leading business development with Global Systems Integrator and Cloud Service Providers partners. He regularly briefs C-level executives and board members around cyber challenges and solutions to mitigate business risk.

In his early career, Prem built an information security practice that grew 400% to $72M in its first year. He forged major alliances with McAfee, Blue Coat, Forescout, Cisco, NitroSecurity, and Juniper, where he won Federal Partner of the Year awards for multiple years. At RedSeal Networks, he built North American channels for the company’s security threat analytics platform, resulting in more than 500% growth in channel business within two quarters.

Prem held a DOD TS clearance, was a CISSP and PMP and studied Information Systems at the University of Maryland. He also holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Vice President of Worldwide Channels

Tom Evans

Tom Evans is the Vice President of Worldwide Channels at Palo Alto Networks, where he is responsible for partner programs, partner sales enablement and global channel strategy. Prior to his current role, Evans led the Channel Cloud and Strategic Initiatives teams for the Americas.

Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Evans was the Vice President of Global Channels at K2, where he significantly grew the channel team, developed and launched a program and grew the business by 250% Y/Y. He also spent 10 years at F5 Networks, where he led channel sales and distribution for the Americas, growing the business to over $1B.

Vice President of Technical Partnerships

Pamela Cyr

Pamela Cyr is the Vice President of Technical Partnerships at Palo Alto Networks. With over 30 years of experience in the security software industry, with startups and large enterprise software organizations, Pamela brings extensive sales, business, corporate and product development expertise to Palo Alto Networks.

Before joining Palo Alto Networks, she was SVP of Corporate and Business Development at Tufin. At Tufin, she was one of the first U.S. executives for the organization. She was responsible for developing and executing the Global System Integrator Program and the Technology Partner Program. Both have been, and continue to be, critical to Tufin’s GTM strategy as they are responsible for influencing a large % of Tufin’s growing business.

Before Tufin, Pamela held executive roles at several startups, including LetMobile, which LanDesk acquired in 2014, Veracode, which CA acquired in 2017 and Aveksa, which was acquired by RSA (the security division of EMC) in July 2013. Before Aveksa, Pamela spent 10 years at RSA in various leadership roles across Engineering, Product Management, and Business Development.

Pamela holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Vice President, Cloud Engagement, AWS

James Beasley

James Beasley is the Vice President, Cloud Engagement, AWS, leading a team of business development, alliance managers and solution architects focused on developing and growing the Palo Alto Networks business with AWS. Prior to this role, James was Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships, where he was invaluable in bringing technology integrations to life with Palo Alto Networks top cloud service providers. James joined Palo Alto Networks through the acquisition of Aporeto, where he led business development.

James spent three years as Sr. Director, Strategic Cloud Security Products & Alliances at McAfee, where he led McAfee's corporate products and alliances teams in the transformation of the company’s enterprise security solutions portfolio to cloud security solutions. In that role, James worked closely with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle on the co-development of security solutions focused on enterprise cloud workloads.

Prior to joining McAfee, James was Managing Director, Strategic Software Program Office, at Intel, working closely with Oracle on the co-development of cloud and enterprise software solutions. James, a 15-year veteran of Intel, held several senior positions, including strategy development across the enterprise software portfolio, business development, marketing and sales.

James joined Intel from Micro, leading its global logistics services, focusing on online fulfillment operations.

James received his MBA from the University of California. He also studied at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan and Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands during his undergraduate and graduate studies.

Vice President of Cortex Ecosystems

Tom Barsi

Tom Barsi is the Vice President of Cortex Ecosystems at Palo Alto Networks. He leads the team responsible for building, developing and managing worldwide routes to market for Cortex, including NextWave channel resellers/distributors, global systems integrators, service providers, cloud service providers and managed services.

Tom joined Palo Alto Networks via the acquisition of Xpanse, the world’s leading attack surface management platform. Tom joined Xpanse from VMware, where he joined via the acquisition of Carbon Black. He oversaw business development and strategic partnerships as Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development of Carbon Black. He has also held Vice President roles at numerous other organizations, such as Proofpoint, where he led as EVP of Business Development and Global Channels and Verisign as Vice President of Business Development.

Tom has over 20 years of experience in channels and business development roles in cybersecurity for both public and private organizations building world-class ecosystem technical alliance partners (ISVs) and strategic go-to-market partners (CSP/SI/MSSP).

Theatre Leader

Patricia Murphy Vice President of Ecosystems EMEA and LATAM

Vice President of Ecosystems EMEA and LATAM

Patricia Murphy

Patricia Murphy is the Vice President of Ecosystems EMEA and LATAM at Palo Alto Networks. Bringing 25+ years of technology leadership experience, Murphy will focus on driving consistent engagement with all our partners, including MSSPs, enhancing Palo Alto Networks representation of these key partners and ensuring a diverse and high-performing ecosystem.

Murphy joins from Apple in France, where she held the position of Executive Managing Director of Enterprise. During her tenure, Murphy successfully steered Apple France into a digital transformation partner with a focused approach on developing a strategic ecosystem of VARs, SPs, SIs and MSPs.