Cybersecurity
10 Palo Alto Networks product leaders
These ten product leaders hold vice president, senior director and director of product management roles at Palo Alto Networks, across firewalls, PAN-OS, SASE and SD-WAN, browser security, threat detection and data security. A reader can learn from them how a large security company plans roadmaps and manages product lines on a shared platform.
Professionals to explore
01—10Brian Levin
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Palo Alto Networks
Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks since October 2023; his profile says he leads product strategy and execution for core PAN-OS capabilities, owning roadmaps for quantum-safe cryptography, identity, networking and platform-wide PAN-OS releases. He was Senior Manager of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks from 2021 to 2023 and Senior Product Manager, Cloud Security at Cisco from 2019 to 2020.
Jigar Shah
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product Management · Palo Alto Networks
Senior Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks since June 2023; his profile says he is the PM leader for core PAN-OS, which powers the company's NGFWs, with responsibility for PAN-OS release, App-ID, User-ID, networking, HA, clustering and decryption. He was Vice President, Products at Valtix (now part of Cisco) from 2021 to 2022 and Product Line Manager at Palo Alto Networks from 2017 to 2020.
Mayuri Kulkarni
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Palo Alto Networks
Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks since September 2023, on the Prisma SASE product management team; her profile says she leads product management for analytics, AI-Ops, routing software, app acceleration and multi-cloud networking for Prisma SD-WAN. She was Director of Product Management at Cisco from 2022 to 2023 and Sr. Manager, Product Management at Cisco from 2021 to 2022.
Mustafa Rassiwala
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product Management · Palo Alto Networks
Senior Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks since September 2024, where his profile says he leads the PM team for malware threat detection (WildFire). Rassiwala worked in Product Management at Meta from 2020 to 2024, was Vice President Of Product Management at Lastline, Inc. from 2018 to 2020, and was Head Of Products at JASK (now Sumo Logic) from 2017 to 2018.
Sowmya Sattanathan
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Products - Strata Cloud Manager - SaaS Platform · Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Director of Products - Strata Cloud Manager - SaaS Platform at Palo Alto Networks since September 2024; her profile headline says she leads the SaaS platform and AI innovation for managing cybersecurity firewall products and services. She was Lead Technical PM - Privacy Compliance and Data Practices at Meta from 2019 to 2024 and Product Manager at Cisco from 2012 to 2014.
Sundar Jayashekar
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Product Management (Software and AI Firewalls) · Palo Alto Networks
Vice President of Product Management (Software and AI Firewalls) at Palo Alto Networks since May 2023. Jayashekar was Senior Director - Product mgmt. (Data Services, Cloud Observability, Security) at JumpCloud (2021–2023), Director - Product Mgmt. (Detection and Response, Cybersecurity) at Salesforce (2019–2021) and Manager, Product Management (AWS WAF and AWS Network Firewall) at Amazon Web Services (2015–2019).
Taylor Ettema
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Of Product Management · Palo Alto Networks
Vice President Of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks since October 2021. At Palo Alto Networks Ettema was also Senior Director of Product Management (2017–2021), Director of Product Management (2014–2017), Product Line Manager (2013–2014) and Senior Product Manager (2012–2013).
Yogesh Ranade
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Product Management · Palo Alto Networks
Senior Director, Product Management at Palo Alto Networks since January 2021; his profile says he leads product strategy, portfolio growth and platform direction across SASE and SD-WAN for enterprise, service provider, managed services and government markets. He was Lead Product Manager, Connectivity at Facebook (2019–2020) and Sr. Director, Product Management at RUCKUS Networks (2017–2019).
Yonatan Gotlib
LinkedInExperience: VP Product Management, Prisma Browser · Palo Alto Networks
VP Product Management, Prisma Browser at Palo Alto Networks since November 2025, after serving as Sr. Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks from 2023 to 2025. Gotlib has also held the role Director of Product Management at Talon (by Palo Alto Networks) since 2021, and has been a Product Management Mentor at Product League since 2021.
Yotam Ben Ezra
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Product Management · Palo Alto Networks
Vice President of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks since April 2026, a role his profile describes as Head of Data, Identity and AI Products. He was Head of Data and AI Security Products - Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks (2024–2026), Chief Product Officer at Dig Security (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) from 2023 to 2024, and Chief Product Officer at SafeBreach from 2022 to 2023.
Choose the right perspective
Match the leader's product line to your question, since firewall, SASE, browser and data security products serve different buyers and deployment models. For portfolio strategy, start with a vice president, and for detailed roadmap or release questions, pick the director who owns that product area.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a security company decide which capabilities belong in a shared platform versus a separate product?
- 02How do product teams plan for changes like post-quantum cryptography years before customers ask for them?
- 03What changes in product management after a company acquires a startup and folds its product into a larger platform?
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