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10 Palo Alto Networks sales leaders
These ten sales leaders have held regional vice president or more senior sales roles at Palo Alto Networks across enterprise, public sector, healthcare, commercial and renewals teams. They can explain how Palo Alto Networks sales teams are organized by territory and segment and how those teams approach large security deals.
Professionals to explore
01—10Andy Weiss
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President & GM Alps · Palo Alto Networks
Regional Vice President & GM Alps at Palo Alto Networks since January 2022; the profile cites more than 15 years in the cybersecurity industry. Before Palo Alto Networks he held Open Systems roles including Head of Sales US Country Sales Manager (2016–2019), VP Sales North America (2019–2021) and Global VP Customer Retention & Major Accounts (DACH US) (2021–2022).
Chase Holland
LinkedInExperience: RVP Strategic Healthcare West · Palo Alto Networks
RVP Strategic Healthcare West at Palo Alto Networks since August 2025, after serving there as Account Executive (2019–2022) and Director of Sales, Central Healthcare (2022–2025). The profile also lists an earlier Regional Sales Manager stint at Palo Alto Networks (2014–2016) and Account Executive at Rubrik (2018–2019).
Greg Goble
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President of Sales - SLED West · Palo Alto Networks
Regional Vice President of Sales - SLED West at Palo Alto Networks since August 2025, after serving there as District Sales Manager Mountain States SLED (2023–2025). The profile says he spearheads Palo Alto Networks' public sector sales efforts across multiple states. Earlier roles include Sales Director at Rubrik (2021–2023) and Regional Sales Director at Splunk (2020–2021).
John Krug
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President Enterprise New York Metro · Palo Alto Networks
Regional Vice President Enterprise New York Metro at Palo Alto Networks since August 2022. His earlier Palo Alto Networks roles include Regional Sales Manager (2013–2017), District Sales Manager (2017–2021) and Director of Sales - Enterprise (2021–2022). Before joining he was Enterprise Account Manager NJ NYC at Raytheon|Websense (2006–2013).
Peter Eastman
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President of Sales, West Enterprise · Palo Alto Networks
Regional Vice President of Sales, West Enterprise at Palo Alto Networks since November 2021, based in Los Angeles according to the profile. Before that he was Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Trustifi (2021) and held Hewlett Packard Enterprise roles as Partner Business Manager (2010–2013), District Sales Manager (2013–2019) and Director Of Commercial Storage Sales (2019–2020).
Samer El Kodsi
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President of Sales - Gulf & North Africa · Palo Alto Networks
Regional Vice President of Sales - Gulf & North Africa at Palo Alto Networks since August 2025. His earlier Palo Alto Networks roles were Director Channel Sales - Middle East & Africa (2018–2021) and Sr Director Ecosystems , Emerging Markets (2021–2025). Before joining he was Regional Sales Director Enterprise - MENA (2014–2017) and GM GCC & Levant (2017–2018) at Juniper Networks.
Thomas O'Brien
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President Majors East · Palo Alto Networks
Former Regional Vice President Majors East at Palo Alto Networks (2018–2020), after District Sales Manager - Major Accounts there (2015–2018). He went on to Vice President- GTM Next Generation Firewall (2020–2023) and Senior Vice President- North America Major Accounts (2023–2025), and has been President- Strategics East at Palo Alto Networks since August 2025.
Tyreece (Ty) Williams
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President, America Renewals · Palo Alto Networks
Regional Vice President, America Renewals at Palo Alto Networks since January 2022. Other Palo Alto Networks roles on the profile are District Manager - East SLED (2016–2018), Senior Manager - Global & Major Accounts (2018–2021) and Director, Corporate Sales (2021–2022). Before joining he was Regional Sales Manager at MD Buyline (2014–2016).
Will Locandro
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President, Enterprise East · Palo Alto Networks
Regional Vice President, Enterprise East at Palo Alto Networks since February 2022, covering Maine to Florida according to the profile. He joined Palo Alto Networks as District Sales Manager (2019–2021) and was Director, Regional Sales Northeast (2021–2022); before that he held Riverbed Technology roles as Regional Director - Commercial Accounts and Sr. Regional Director - Enterprise and Major Accounts (2017–2019).
Zach Harden
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Commercial Inside Sales · Palo Alto Networks
Vice President, Commercial Inside Sales at Palo Alto Networks since October 2021. His earlier Palo Alto Networks roles were Regional Vice President, Corporate Sales (2019–2020), Regional Vice President, SMB Sales (2020–2021) and Vice President, Corporate Sales (2021). Before joining he was Director, Global Inside Sales at Avigilon (2018–2019).
Choose the right perspective
Pick the person whose segment and region match your question, since enterprise, public sector, commercial and renewals teams sell and negotiate differently. For current pricing, packaging or partner questions, favor people whose relevant Palo Alto Networks role is current.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How are Palo Alto Networks' sales teams split between regions, account segments and product lines, and how does a large platform deal get staffed?
- 02What does a typical buying process for Palo Alto Networks look like from first meeting to signed contract, and where do deals most often stall?
- 03How do renewals, expansions and competitive displacements get handled differently from new-logo deals?
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