Anthony Tanzi has more than 20 years’ experience in the networking and network security space. As a Partner Architect focused on Palo Alto Networks, Tanzi is responsible for Optiv’s pre-sales enablement and support to accelerate growth between Palo Alto Networks and Optiv in existing and new markets across the U.S. and Canada. This includes training and enablement of the pre-sales team as well as supporting them in pre-sales Palo Alto Networks conversations as well as assisting in proof of concepts, running Ultimate test drives, perform best practice assessments as well as being a technical sounding board for Optiv customers. Tanzi works directly with Optiv’s dedicated Palo Alto Channel SE to drive technical enablement as well as being an advocate for our customers. He is also focused on supporting Optiv’s post sale implementation team and working with marketing on Palo Alto specific campaigns.

Tanzi came to Optiv as part of the acquisition of the Philadelphia based integrator Comm Solutions in 2017. While at Comm Solutions for 10 years, Tanzi lead the Palo Alto Networks practice as a pre-sales engineer, post-sale implementation engineer, certified Palo Alto instructor as well as holding his own Palo Alto user groups and other marketing functions and support.

Tanzi is a member of Palo Alto Networks Cyberforce and was the first partner engineer to reach the highest level of “Cyberforce Hero” in the United States as well as being the first worldwide to be awarded “Ultimate Cyberforce Hero”.