AJ Shipley

AJ Shipley serves as Chief Product Officer at CrowdStrike, where he leads the company's product organization, accelerating innovation across the Falcon® platform. He drives strategy and execution to extend Falcon's structural advantage across endpoint, identity, cloud, and next-gen SIEM, building the agentic SOC and securing the AI that enterprises increasingly depend on.

Shipley brings more than two decades of experience building category-defining cybersecurity products. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, he served as Chief Product Officer of Splunk Security, where he led strategy and execution across the security portfolio, including Splunk Enterprise Security, Cisco XDR, and Endpoint Detection and Response. Earlier at Cisco, he led product management for the Threat Detection and Response portfolio spanning XDR, EDR, NDR, email security, and vulnerability management, building Cisco XDR from the ground up and driving the investment thesis behind Cisco's $28 billion acquisition of Splunk. 

He previously served as Vice President of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks, leading its $1B+ cloud-delivered security services portfolio and the Unit 42 threat research team, and held product leadership roles at Agari, LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, NetApp, and Wind River.

Experience

• Chief Product Officer, Splunk Security – Cisco
  
• Vice President, Product Management – Palo Alto Networks
  
• Vice President, Product Management – Agari
• Vice President, Product Management – LookingGlass Cyber Solutions

Education

• MBA – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Graduate and Undergraduate Degrees, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science