Mr. Batra is a Founder of Palo Alto Networks and was responsible for building and leading the engineering department from inception. At Palo Alto Networks he held many positions including Founder, Member Office of CEO and Senior Vice President of Engineering. Palo Alto Networks is the largest independent enterprise security company in the world. Prior to founding Palo Alto Networks, Mr. Batra was the Vice President of Engineering at Peribit Networks. Peribit Networks built industry leading products in the areas of WAN Optimization and WAN Acceleration. It was acquired by Juniper Networks in July of 2005. Mr. Batra was also the Founder and VP of Engineering at VitalSigns Networks that was later acquired by International Network Services in 1998.

Profile

Mr. Batra holds an MS degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983. He served as chair of the Board of Visitors of the Computer Science Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a Board Member of University of Wisconsin Foundation. He also served as a Trustee of Honolulu Museum of Art.

Mr. Batra was awarded the 2012 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award by University of Wisconsin-Madison.IITK conferred upon Mr. Rajiv Batra the Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2020.University of Wisconsin conferred upon Mr. Rajiv Batra the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2024.

Awards& Achievement

• Entrepreneurial Achievement Award by University of Wisconsin -Madison(1983)
• Distinguished Alumnus Award,by IIT Kanpur(2020)
• Distinguished Alumni Award by University of Wisconsin (2024).