Ken Xie & family
$6.1B
Born
Jan 26, 1963
Age
63
Source of Wealth
Cybersecurity
Residence
Los Altos Hills, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
0
Education
Master of Science, Stanford University; Bachelor of Science, Tsinghua University; Master of Science, Tsinghua University
- Ken Xie is the cofounder and CEO of Fortinet, a cybersecurity firm that offers firewalls, cloud security and other services to businesses.
- The son of two Chinese academics, Xie's parents hoped that he would become a professor and sent him to Stanford University to study engineering.
- Xie became interested in entrepreneurship while at Stanford, founding his first company, a software firewall business named SIS, in 1993.
- He started another cybersecurity firm, NetScreen, three years later, before founding Fortinet with brother Michael Xie in 2000.
- The California-based company, which went public on the Nasdaq in 2009, reported nearly $6 billion in 2024 revenue. Ken owns more than 8% of Fortinet.
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