Peter Amirkhan, Public Sector SVP at Zscaler

Peter Amirkhan is the senior vice president of Zscaler’s public sector business. He has been with the company since February 2018.

As public sector SVP, Amirkhan oversees the company’s go-to-market strategy and sales efforts for the U.S. government and education markets. He also played a key role in turning Zscaler into a top cloud security and zero trust capability provider for public sector organizations. Amirkhan was a VP and a general manager of Zscaler Americas prior to his current leadership role, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The public sector leader was the chief revenue officer at cloud company Druva before joining Zscaler. He also held sales VP roles at SeaMicro, Storspeed and BlueArc. Amirkhan was also the chief financial officer of SLO Ticketing, which was acquired by Ticketmaster.

The industry veteran started his professional career in 1998 as a general ledger accountant at American mass media company iHeartMedia.

Amirkhan holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Oregon Charles H. Lundquist College of Business.

Zscaler offers modern workplace enablement, security and infrastructure transformation and modernization services to government, public sector and education organizations. Its product offerings include Zscaler Business to Business, Zscaler Cloud Protection and the Zero Trust Exchange platform.