Diversity Reboot Summit

KEYNOTE: Hiring the Right People with Liane Hornsey, EVP & Chief People Officer at Palo Alto Networks

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KEYNOTE: Hiring the Right People with Liane Hornsey, EVP & Chief People Officer at Palo Alto Networks

We’re honoured to welcome our keynote speaker, Liane Hornsey, EVP & Chief People Officer at Palo Alto Networks, a leader in global cybersecurity, protecting billions of people worldwide. Previously, Liane served as Google’s first female Vice President in Human Resources. In this conversation, we’ll learn what it means to hire the “right” people and how we can nurture our human capital the right way—calling all HR enthusiasts to this conversation! This conversation is made possible by Smartsheet and American Express.

Meet The Speaker

Liane Hornsey
Liane Hornsey
EVP & Chief People Officer at Palo Alto Networks

Liane Hornsey joined Palo Alto Networks as chief people officer in September 2018. Liane previously served as chief people officer at Uber Technologies, Inc. where she helped transform the culture during a period of significant turbulence. Prior to that, she served as chief administrative officer and operating partner at SoftBank Group International. In this role she traveled the globe helping portfolio companies scale and achieve unsurpassed human capital success. For almost ten years before joining SoftBank, Liane led People Operations for Google’s Global Business and became Google’s first female vice president in human resources.

Liane has held senior leadership roles at lastminute.com Group, Virgin Media and BMG Music. Liane is widely recognized as one of the world’s pre-eminent practitioners in people operations as well as organization and leadership development.

Liane serves on the board of BUILD, a nonprofit organization that provides real-world entrepreneurial experience to empower youth from under-resourced communities to excel in education, lead in their communities and succeed professionally.