About

Formerly Asia Pacific legal director for Juniper Networks, in February 2018 Stephan Engelmann took on a demanding new role with Palo Alto Networks, being the regional counsel and tasked with responsibility for building and growing the legal team in Asia Pacific. In working towards this, Engelmann has targeted ‘enabling business by focussing on high risk areas and deal support in order to ensure legal support in a timely manner’. As for his career prior to Palo Alto Networks, Engelmann has a raft of professional highlights to look back on. ‘At Juniper’, he explains, ‘I supported the biggest account outside the US when I joined Juniper Networks while also co-leading the global data privacy program together with a US colleague, and became adept at how to deal with such an important customer on a daily basis. This included ensuring the internal alignment of the legal team with company objectives and grasping the importance of building relationships with internal stakeholders as well as counterparts on the other side of any deals’.