Eric Trexler, formerly a vice president at Forcepoint, has assumed the role of senior VP for the U.S. public sector unit at Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday.
Trexler led domestic and international sales functions within Forcepoint’s global governments and critical infrastructure business for more than four years. (Read his interview with our sister publication site ExecutiveBiz)
Before his February 2018 appointment at Forcepoint, Trexler was executive director of civilian and national security programs at McAfee, which Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) acquired in 2010 and spun off in 2016.
The 26-year technology industry veteran previously managed accounts at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), EMC and Sybase.
Trexler served in the U.S. Army for four years as airborne ranger focused communications.