---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001327567-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PANW"
cik: "0001327567"
company_name: "Palo Alto Networks Inc"
filed_at: "2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T22:08:43.757571+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Palo Alto Networks adds former Danish PM and ex-UBS CEO to board of directors

## Summary
- Appoints Helle Thorning-Schmidt (former Danish PM) and Ralph Hamers (ex-UBS CEO) as independent directors.
- Board expands from nine to eleven members; both serve as Class II directors with terms expiring at 2025 annual meeting.
- Thorning-Schmidt joins Governance & Sustainability and Security Committees; Hamers joins Audit and Security Committees.
- Each receives initial RSU award valued at ~$1M, vesting over three years; also eligible for annual director RSU awards.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001327567-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PANW
- cik: 0001327567
- company_name: Palo Alto Networks Inc
- filed_at: 2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327567/000132756725000004/0001327567-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327567/000132756725000004/panw-20250212.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001327567-25-000004
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001327567-25-000004.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001327567-25-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ralph Hamers was appointed as Director at Palo Alto Networks Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Ralph Hamers to the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327567/000132756725000004/0001327567-25-000004-index.htm
- Executive change
  Helle Thorning-Schmidt was appointed as Director at Palo Alto Networks Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Ralph Hamers to the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327567/000132756725000004/0001327567-25-000004-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.