Software - Infrastructure · Technology
Board Member, CTO
2025-08-18–present
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Get PANW alertsLee Klarich is recorded as CTO at Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) since August 18, 2025 and Board Member at Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW). The newest filing on record that lists Lee Klarich as Board Member at Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) is dated November 7, 2025. Palo Alto Networks Inc reported in an 8-K filed August 18, 2025 that Lee Klarich was appointed CTO. Palo Alto Networks Inc reported in an 8-K filed August 18, 2025 that Lee Klarich was appointed Board of Directors. Palo Alto Networks Inc reported in an 8-K filed August 18, 2025 that Lee Klarich was appointed Class I director, effective August 14, 2025. The proxy statement of Palo Alto Networks Inc reports total compensation of $25,971,237 for Lee Klarich in fiscal 2025, including a base salary of $550,000. Disclosed compensation is on record for 8 fiscal years. Lee Klarich has spoken on 15 earnings calls across 1 company, most recently for Palo Alto Networks Inc on June 2, 2026. Palo Alto Networks Inc is classified in the Software - Infrastructure industry within the Technology sector. Other leadership on record at Palo Alto Networks Inc includes Nikesh Arora (CEO and Board Member), Dipak Golechha (CFO), Luis Felipe Visoso (CFO) and 7 others.
“Lee Klarich, Chief Product Officer (CPO), has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors and has also assumed the role of CTO to continue the company's leadership in AI and platformization and deliver the real-time, AI-driven security customers required to enable their digital and AI transformations.”
“Lee Klarich, Chief Product Officer (CPO), has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors and has also assumed the role of CTO to continue the company's leadership in AI and platformization and deliver the real-time, AI-driven security customers required to enable their digital and AI transformations.”
“Yeah, so there's, like every cybersecurity sort of space, we'll call it, there's an end-to-end component.”
“We're obviously very excited by seeing that business accelerate at scale. I think Nikesh said it fairly well when he talked about sort of this notion of a first-gen adoption of customers that tended to be more sort of point product type adoption.”
“Two years ago, RSA focused on AI, last year it was AI security, and this year it's agentic AI. We're observing a progression in the different forms of AI. With agentic AI, I see it as a transition from AI serving as a helper to gaining a level of autonomy, where it can take actions independently.”
“Picking upward where Nikesh left off, if you think about sort of end-to-end cloud security, there's all the work that goes into the cloud posture side, which generates a lot of data and understanding about what assets are deployed, what workloads are deployed, how they're configured, how they might be vulnerable or…”
“Our ability to acquire customers across all three platforms and expand is essential to our strategy. This past year, XSIAM has truly shown our capacity for innovation with a new platform, which has rapidly attracted some of the largest companies globally, aiding in large-scale soft transformations.”
2025-08-18–present
Start not stated–present
Last confirmed November 7, 2025
Proxy statement
Start not stated–present
Last confirmed October 29, 2024
Software - Infrastructure · Technology
Board Member, CTO
2025-08-18–present
Compensation components disclosed in company proxy statements. Amounts are nominal USD; total is the company-reported figure.
| Fiscal year | Company | Role | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) | Chief Product and Technology Officer | $550,000 | $25,971,237 |
| 2024 | Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) | Chief Product Officer | $550,000 | $20,338,318 |
| 2023 | Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) | Chief Product Officer | $550,000 | $17,092,370 |
| 2022 | Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) | Chief Product Officer | $550,000 | $6,048,561 |
| 2021 | Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) | Chief Product Officer | $550,000 | $11,070,190 |
| 2020 | Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) | Chief Product Officer | $550,000 | $1,060,707 |
| 2019 | Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) | Chief Product Officer | $550,000 | $50,977,942 |
| 2018 | Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) | — | $531,250 | $9,215,642 |