Ken Xie is a Chinese billionaire businessman who founded Systems Integration Solutions (SIS), NetScreen, and Fortinet.
He is CEO of Fortinet, a cybersecurity firm based in Silicon Valley. Xie was previously the CEO of NetScreen, which was acquired by Juniper Networks for $4 billion in 2004. He built the first ASIC-based firewall/VPN appliance in 1996.
Early life
Xie was born and raised in China.[1] He graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering,[1][2] and from Stanford University with an M.S. in electrical engineering.