Gerry Plaza serves as Field CTO in the Chief Strategy Office at Netskope. In this role, Gerry focuses his expertise on the vision and strategy around Network and Security Transformation driven by Secure Access Services Edge (SASE). Helping companies understand and deliver the zero trust technology framework used by wide area network and security controls as a cloud computing service directly to the source of connection rather than a data center, providing the flexibility, scalability, and adaptability to support the constant changing nature of business.

Gerry’s career trajectory has taken him through every IT functional role of increasing responsibilities, throughout his 25+ years in the IT Industry. This expansive experience has allowed him to build a deep expertise in Enterprise Architecture allowing him to have a positive impact in every functional area of Infrastructure and Operations from 3-Tier Architecture to Hyperconverged, Virtualization, IP & FC Networking, Network Security, Cyber Security, Cloud, IaaS, and everything in-between throughout Design, Engineering and Operations teams.