Cybersecurity
10 Palo Alto Networks marketing leaders
These ten marketers hold or have held chief marketing officer, senior vice president, senior director and director roles at Palo Alto Networks, across digital, identity, brand, product, partner and regional marketing. A reader can learn from them how a large security company markets several platforms and runs field and channel marketing in different regions.
Professionals to explore
01—10Aarti Mittal
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director, Cross Portfolio Marketing, Brand & Sponsorships · Palo Alto Networks
Sr Director, Cross Portfolio Marketing, Brand & Sponsorships at Palo Alto Networks since October 2022, and Senior Director, Brand Strategy at Palo Alto Networks from February 2020 to December 2022. Mittal was Senior Brand Marketing Manager at Cisco from 2016 to 2020 and Senior Business Transformation Manager at Cisco from 2012 to 2016.
Amy Blackshaw, CISSP
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Identity Marketing · Palo Alto Networks
SVP, Identity Marketing at Palo Alto Networks since February 2026, and Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at CyberArk since September 2025. Blackshaw was Vice President Product Marketing at CyberArk (2022–2025), VP, Product and Technical Marketing at Bitdefender (2021–2022) and VP, Head Of Marketing, Netwitness at RSA Security (2020–2021).
Anna Nguyen
LinkedInExperience: SVP Global Digital Marketing · Palo Alto Networks
SVP Global Digital Marketing at Palo Alto Networks since November 2025. Nguyen was SVP Global Digital Marketing (Media Activation, Digital Experience & Platform Engineering) at ServiceNow from 2019 to 2025, Chief Operating Officer at PlaceIQ (acquired by Precisely) from 2013 to 2015, and has worked as a digital strategy and operations consultant at Annalyze Inc since 2015.
Carmela Wong
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, North America Marketing - Segments · Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Director, North America Marketing - Segments at Palo Alto Networks since January 2024. At Cisco Wong was Sr. Director, Marketing - Networking, Security and Cloud (2020–2023) and Sr. Director, Marketing - Data Center, Cloud and Compute (2018–2020), and she was Vice President, Global Integrated Marketing, GTM and Demand Generation at CA Technologies from 2016 to 2018.
Maisa Fernandez
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Global Partner Marketing · Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Director, Global Partner Marketing at Palo Alto Networks since April 2026. Fernandez was Director Global Partner Marketing - Demand Strategy at ServiceNow from 2022 to 2026 and Global Partner and Alliances Marketing Director at ServiceNow from 2022 to 2023, and has been a Board Member at the Channel Marketing Association since 2025.
Marisol González Orellana
LinkedInExperience: Director, Latin America Marketing · Palo Alto Networks
Director, Latin America Marketing at Palo Alto Networks since September 2021; her profile says she shaped and developed the marketing strategy for a multi-national territory through management of the partner ecosystem. At Palo Alto Networks she was also Head of LATAM Marketing (2019–2021) and Sr. Regional Field Marketing Manager, LATAM (2015–2019).
Natalie Melamed
LinkedInExperience: Principal (Senior Director), Corporate and Marketing Strategy · Palo Alto Networks
Principal (Senior Director), Corporate and Marketing Strategy at Palo Alto Networks since December 2021, a role listed in the Marketing department. Melamed was Senior Manager, Executive Accelerators at Deloitte from 2016 to 2021, a role whose title covers defining and operationalizing growth strategy and advising CMOs, and an Engagement Manager at Deloitte from 2010 to 2016.
Neha Kumar
LinkedInExperience: Director, Product Marketing - Network Security Platform & Core Security · Palo Alto Networks
Director, Product Marketing - Network Security Platform & Core Security at Palo Alto Networks since July 2025; her profile says she leads product marketing for that portfolio, covering the Strata platform, Cloud-Delivered Security Services and AI-powered security management. She was Director, Product Marketing, Strata Network Security Platform and Strata Cloud Manager at Palo Alto Networks from 2023 to 2025.
Unnikrishnan KP
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · Palo Alto Networks
Former Chief Marketing Officer at Palo Alto Networks (January 2023 to April 2025) and Sr. Vice President, Marketing (AMERICAS) there since April 2025. At Palo Alto Networks the profile also lists Vice President, Marketing (Asia Pacific & Japan) from 2019 to 2023, Sr. Director Marketing (Asia Pacific & Japan) from 2015 to 2019 and Marketing Director (Asia Pacific) from 2013 to 2015.
Wenting Chiu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Field and Channel Marketing JAPAC · Palo Alto Networks
Senior Director of Field and Channel Marketing JAPAC at Palo Alto Networks since April 2023, based in Singapore. At Palo Alto Networks Chiu was also Senior Director and Head of Marketing, North Asia (2021–2023), Director and Head of Marketing, North Asia (2017–2021) and Cortex GTM Lead, Asia Pacific (2019–2021); her profile cites channel marketing in enterprise and SMB segments.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since digital, brand, product and partner marketing each answer different problems. For company-wide strategy, start with the former chief marketing officer or a senior vice president, and for regional or channel execution, pick the director who runs that region today.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a security company with several platforms decide how much to market each one versus the overall brand?
- 02How do field and channel marketing teams adapt global campaigns for regions like Asia Pacific or Latin America?
- 03What changes in marketing after a large acquisition brings a new product line and team into the company?
About this directory
This is a professional research starting point based on business profile data retrieved on . Titles and companies reflect that source snapshot and may describe past or present roles. Check the linked profiles for current details. Inclusion does not imply Instant Expert membership or availability.
Request a correction or removal