Ken Xie is founder, chairman, and CEO of Fortinet. Under his leadership, Fortinet has grown into a leading cybersecurity provider, serving approximately 70 percent of the Fortune 100 and governments worldwide with solutions spanning network, cloud, edge, infrastructure, and IoT security.

Prior to Fortinet, Xie founded Netscreen, whose innovations in high-performance firewalls and VPN systems helped redefine network security before the company’s acquisition by Juniper for $4 billion.

Xie holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and BS and MS degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on the boards of the Cyber Threat Alliance and the World Economic Forum’s Center for Cybersecurity.