Ken Xie
Ken Xie is founder, president and CEO of Fortinet. Ken was founder,pPresident and CEO of NetScreen (NASDAQ: NSCN), which was acquired by Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR) in 2004 for $4 billion. Additionally, he was managing partner of Jedi Venture, founder, president and CEO of Stanford Infosystems, and Security Architect for Healtheon (NASDAQ: HLTH) and Philips.
He was named a 2006 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, a 2006 Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and a Top 15 Technology Innovator in 2004 by Computer Reseller News magazine. He earned a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from Tsinghua University in China.
Recent Posts
The market always makes way for true innovation
If every entrepreneur shredded the business plan after being told there wasn’t room in the market for his or her idea, the industry would have missed some great innovations. I wonder how many times the founders of Google were told the Internet doesn’t need another search engine or that Juniper Networks was misguided in taking on Cisco because it already “owned” the router space. In my own case, when founding both NetScreen and Fortinet, I… Continue Reading