Naveen Palavalli
Naveen Palavalli is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Forcepoint. As CMO, he is responsible for leading the marketing strategy and execution for the company to accelerate customer adoption and deployment of Forcepoint’s Data-first SASE platform to secure data everywhere.
Palavalli has a 20+ year track record of driving strategy and execution across product and marketing roles in public, private and venture-backed companies. He brings a customer first and data-driven mindset to marketing leveraging his engineering and product background.
Prior to joining Forcepoint, Palavalli served as SVP, Head of global product and solutions marketing and worldwide marketing campaigns. He was also Vice President, global head of product go-to-market and industry analyst relations at McAfee. Additionally, he has served in leadership roles in product management and marketing across Symantec, Cisco and Microsoft.
Palavalli holds an MBA in Marketing, Strategy and Entrepreneurship from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, a MS in Computer Science from the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California and a BS in Computer Science from Bangalore University.