Vice President, Cloud Engagement, AWS
James Beasley
James Beasley is the Vice President, Cloud Engagement, AWS, leading a team of business development, alliance managers and solution architects focused on developing and growing the Palo Alto Networks business with AWS. Prior to this role, James was Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships, where he was invaluable in bringing technology integrations to life with Palo Alto Networks top cloud service providers. James joined Palo Alto Networks through the acquisition of Aporeto, where he led business development.
James spent three years as Sr. Director, Strategic Cloud Security Products & Alliances at McAfee, where he led McAfee's corporate products and alliances teams in the transformation of the company’s enterprise security solutions portfolio to cloud security solutions. In that role, James worked closely with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle on the co-development of security solutions focused on enterprise cloud workloads.
Prior to joining McAfee, James was Managing Director, Strategic Software Program Office, at Intel, working closely with Oracle on the co-development of cloud and enterprise software solutions. James, a 15-year veteran of Intel, held several senior positions, including strategy development across the enterprise software portfolio, business development, marketing and sales.
James joined Intel from Micro, leading its global logistics services, focusing on online fulfillment operations.
James received his MBA from the University of California. He also studied at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan and Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands during his undergraduate and graduate studies.