On May 13, 2021, the Board of Directors of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. appointed Aparna Bawa to the Board to serve as a Class III director whose term expires at the annual meeting to be held in 2023. In addition, the Board appointed Ms. Bawa to the Audit Committee of the Board. Ms. Bawa, age 43, has served as the Chief Operating Officer and Interim Chief Legal Officer of Zoom Video Communications, Inc., a video communications company, since May 2020. Ms. Bawa served as Zoom’s Chief Legal Officer from August 2019 to May 2020, its General Counsel from September 2018 to May 2020 and its Secretary from December 2018 to November 2020. Prior to Zoom Video Communications, Ms. Bawa served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Magento, Inc., an e-commerce platform company, from June 2017 until its acquisition by Adobe Inc. in June 2018. From November 2012 to May 2017, Ms. Bawa served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Nimble Storage, Inc., an enterprise flash storage company, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in April 2017. Ms. Bawa holds a B.Sc. in Accounting from Marquette University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Ms. Bawa was selected to serve on our Board due to her extensive experience in technology companies.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. specializes in the development and implementation of IT security solutions for the enterprise. The group's activity is organized around three divisions:
- managed security services: data center management and storage of data in the cloud, data backup and recovery process management, real-time management and monitoring of IT infrastructure and applications, etc.;
- development of cybersecurity solutions: software solutions for detecting threats and intrusions, protecting against malicious programs, securing data, networks and computer systems (antivirus, anti-spam, web filtering, firewalls, etc.);
- security consulting services: training and updates on threats before, during and after attacks, risk management, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: America (68.5%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (19.7%) and Asia/Pacific (11.8%).