Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora joins General Catalyst board
General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja announced in a LinkedIn post on Monday that Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, will join the firm’s board as its first lead independent director. This comes alongside the departure of cofounder David Fialkow after 24 years on the board.
Arora will join Taneja and Kenneth Chenault, General Catalyst’s chairman, on the board. “Nikesh is a rare combination: someone who thinks like an investor and builds like an operator. He’s led some of the most consequential technology organizations in the world, and I’ve long admired the clarity and ambition he brings to everything he does,” Taneja wrote.
