AHEAD Awarded the Palo Alto Networks 2025 North America Solution Provider of the Year

CHICAGO, March 23, 2026 - AHEAD, a provider of technology services that modernizes security, cloud, and data platforms, today announced it has received the Palo Alto Networks 2025 North America Solution Provider of the Year award.

These annual awards recognize an elite group of Palo Alto Networks partners that have demonstrated exceptional performance and commitment to customer security over the past fiscal year. To ensure a rigorous and objective selection process, this year's recipients were determined through a data-driven methodology that evaluated partners across a comprehensive set of key performance indicators, including:

• Performance: Bookings volume and growth, new customer growth, partner-initiated business and deal volume and growth
• Strategic Engagement: Demonstrated acquisition of net-new logos and success in partner-initiated business and pipeline development

AHEAD collaborates with Palo Alto Networks to help enterprises modernize security across data center, cloud, and edge environments and build a more cyber-resilient foundation. By combining AHEAD advisory, integration, and managed services with Palo Alto Networks AI-powered security platforms, customers strengthen cyber resilience and Zero Trust initiatives, simplify operations and reduce risk while maintaining uptime and business continuity amid rapid change in their businesses and threat landscapes.

"We are honored to be recognized by Palo Alto Networks as the 2025 North America Solution Provider of the Year," said Cory Carlson, VP Security Sales at AHEAD. "This recognition reflects the outcomes we are delivering for joint customers as they modernize security, consolidate tools and prepare for AI driven operations. Our team is focused on helping organizations secure their cloud, network and data environments while keeping operations simple and resilient.

"In cybersecurity, a trusted partner ecosystem is the engine that drives security transformations throughout the entire customer journey," said Simone Gammeri, Chief Partnerships Officer at Palo Alto Networks. "Our partners are more than just a route to market; they are essential to helping customers modernize their infrastructure and adopt the AI-powered, platform-based security needed for today's scale. We're proud to recognize AHEAD as 2025 North America Solution Provider of the Year, celebrating their role in evolving our customers' security infrastructure and solving complex security challenges together."

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About AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates strategy into execution by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. We modernize platforms and workflows, applying AI to unlock the full impact of people and technology-building what others only blueprint.

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