Palo Alto Networks Taps Former Google Exec Amit Singh As President>
CRN – Michael Novinson
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based platform security giant announced late Monday that Amit Singh will start Nov. 1 as president of Palo Alto Networks. Singh will replace Mark Anderson, who has been with the company for 6.5 years and served as president since August 2016. Singh worked alongside Arora at Google between May 2010 and December 2014, where the latter helped grow Google’s search business from $2 billion to more than $60 billion and led more than 20,000 employees. Arora started as CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June. Singh, meanwhile, spent more than six years driving revenue, support, partnerships, customer operations and product strategy for Google Cloud, previously known as Google for Work and Google Enterprise. Products under Singh’s domain included Google Apps & Search, Chromebooks, Android for Work, Maps for Business, and Google Cloud Platform, according to his LinkedIn profile. For the past 2.5 years, Singh has served as Google’s vice president of business and operations in emerging computing platforms, including augmented and virtual reality. There, he has been responsible for partnerships, monetization, and bringing products and services to consumers, creators, and the education space, according to Google. Singh will receive an annual base salary of $750,000, a $10 million restricted stock award vesting over four years, and $24.5 million of performance-based stock options contingent of the achievement of certain stock price targets within the next seven years, according to a filing Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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