Ken Xie vs Jay Chaudhry

Ken Xie

CEO of Fortinet

BIO: Mr. Ken Xie founded Fortinet Inc., and has been its Chief Executive Officer and Director since October 2000. Mr. Xie serves as an Advisor at WI Harper Group. He is a Strategic Advisor at Trident Capital Cybersecurity. He served as President at Fortinet Inc, from October 2000 to November 11, 2013. He founded NetScreen and Stanford Infosystems International, Inc and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He served as a Managing Partner of Jedi Venture. He served as Lead Security Architect of Healtheon Corporation (now WebMD) and Philips. He started his first company SIS in 1993. He has over 15 years of technical and management experience in the networking and security industries. Mr. Xie serves as the Chairman of Fortinet Inc. He has been an Independent Director of TeleNav, Inc. since July 2012. He serves as a Board Member of HuaYuan Science and Technologies Association. In 2006, he was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and Time Magazine and Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. He was also recognized as a Top 5 Entrepreneur by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2005, top 25 Chinese-Americans in Business by Forbes in 2010, and Father of UTM in an InfoSecurity cover story in 2011. He is also a state registered Professional Engineer in Electrical and hold certificates of Advanced Project Management, Strategic Decision and Risk Management from Stanford University. Mr. Xie holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in China and an M.S. and doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Jay Chaudhry

CEO of Zscaler

BIO: Jay is an accomplished entrepreneur, having founded a series of successful companies, including AirDefense, CipherTrust, CoreHarbor, SecureIT, and Zscaler, now a public company as of March 16, 2018. Jay has a history of introducing visionary innovations to market that address the demand for securely enabling emerging technology trends, such as the Zscaler global security cloud for distributed and mobile enterprises. Jay’s considerable work in the security technology sector has made him a trusted advisor for many enterprise CIOs and CISOs. Jay leverages more than 25 years of security industry expertise, including engineering, sales, marketing and management experience with leading organizations, such as IBM, NCR and Unisys. Prior to founding Zscaler in 2008, he founded and led AirDefense, a wireless security pioneer, before its acquisition by Motorola. From 2000 to 2006, Jay founded and led CipherTrust, the industry’s first email security gateway, before its merger with Secure Computing. He also founded and led CoreHarbor, a managed ecommerce solution, before it was acquired by USi/AT&T. In 1996, Jay founded and led his first company, SecureIT, the first pure-play Internet security service, before it was acquired by VeriSign in 1998. Jay has been honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year (Southeast USA),” an Information Week “Innovator & Influencer”, an SC Magazine “Market Entrepreneur”, an IIT BHU “Distinguished Alumnus” and a Goldman Sachs “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.” He earned his MBA in Marketing, MS in Computer Engineering and MS in Industrial Engineering – all from the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Bachelor of Technology in Electronics Engineering from IIT BHU Varanasi. Jay has completed the Executive Management Program from Harvard Business School.