Shailesh Rao is President of the Cortex division at Palo Alto Networks, where he has global business responsibility for the world's leading platform for AI-enabled Cyber Security Operations. This includes the award-winning products in the Cortex portfolio: XSIAM, XDR, XSOAR and Xpanse. Shailesh has 25+ years of global business and technology experience including senior leadership roles at a variety of world-leading cloud infrastructure and enterprise application companies like Google, SAP and Salesforce.com. Shailesh received an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India, a master’s degree in computer science from the Old Dominion University in Virginia and a master’s in business administration from the Harvard Business School in Massachusetts.