Zscaler Appoints Security Industry Veteran Adam Geller as Chief Product Officer to Scale Cloud Security Leader to $5 Billion ARR and Beyond

 Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the leader in cloud security, today announced the appointment of Adam Geller as Chief Product Officer to scale and accelerate the company’s next phase of innovation and growth.

“I am truly excited to have Adam join us as we expand Zscaler’s product suite to support our rapidly growing business and customer base,” said Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Zscaler. “Adam was an integral part of the growth at Exabeam as CEO and prior to that as the Chief Product Officer he drove the development of their cloud-scale security operations platform. His extensive and proven security product and engineering experience will be invaluable to Zscaler as we build our AI-driven security operations platform. Adam brings deep product experience supported by strong customer engagement with enterprises, key for our next phase of growth.”

Mr. Geller has over 25 years of product and engineering experience across multiple domains of cybersecurity. Prior to his time focusing on SIEM and security operations at Exabeam, he launched and grew multiple product lines for Palo Alto Networks focusing on virtualization and cloud. Earlier, Mr. Geller built managed security services for global IT provider NTT Communications and focused on identity and authentication for VeriSign/Symantec. His deep commitment to understanding customer challenges and delivering innovative solutions has its roots in his earliest jobs delivering pre-sales and post-sales security assessments, product implementation, and managed security services.

“Zscaler has consistently proven that it secures, simplifies, and transforms businesses who adopt its amazing platform," said Mr. Geller. “I am thrilled to take on the opportunity to grow Zscaler beyond $5B in ARR through our current and future product offerings powered by AI & ML. Zscaler sits at the confluence of users, devices, and applications and this offers unparalleled insights into identity, behavior, and intent. With access to one of the largest and richest datasets from billions of transactions, alerts, and context per day, we are able to deliver services that solve our customer’s IT challenges and give them the confidence they need to digitally transform their businesses.”

Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements that are based on our management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. These forward-looking statements include the potential impact of the executive appointments to Zscaler's future recurring revenue and ability to grow and scale. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A significant number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from statements made in this press release.

Additional risks and uncertainties are set forth in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on September 14, 2023, which is available on our website at ir.zscaler.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements in this release are based on the limited information currently available to Zscaler as of the date hereof, which is subject to change, and Zscaler will not necessarily update the information, even if new information becomes available in the future.

About ZscalerZscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across more than 150 data centers globally, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.  

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