Gil Shwed

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Biography

• Gil Shwed, considered the inventor of the modern computer firewall, cofounded Check Point Software Technologies in 1993 with Shlomo Kramer and Marius Nacht.
• The company went public on the Nasdaq in 1996.
• Shwed owns about 25% of Check Point's stock and serves as its executive chairman.
• Check Point, which develops cybersecurity software, counts many of the largest U.S. companies as its clients.
• Check Point prevented over 3 billion cyber attacks annually and has secured over 100,000 organizations worldwide.
• Shwed first joined the billionaires list in 2001, only to fall off in 2003 when the tech bubble burst. He returned to the billionaire ranks in 2011.
• Shwed sits on the boards of the Youth University of Tel Aviv University and Yecholot Association, which works to reduce dropout rates in high schools.
• In 2018, the Israeli government awarded Shwed the first Israel Prize in the technology category for his contributions to cybersecurity and the country's economy.

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