Hameedah Merchant

Hameedah Merchant currently serves as the Director of People Business Partner at Palo Alto Networks since May 2024. Prior to this role, Hameedah worked as an Independent Consultant at Forshay from 2017 to April 2024, providing interim People Business Partner and talent management consulting services for clients such as Varian Medical Systems and Atlassian. Hameedah's previous positions include Director of Workforce Science at TalentSky, Inc., Senior HR Program Manager/HR Business Partner at VMware, and various roles at Applied Materials, Buck, Sun Microsystems, Gap, and Merrill Lynch, culminating in experience spanning over two decades in human resources and consulting. Hameedah holds a Master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from McGill University.