Rank #499
Michael Xie
Net worth $7.6B
Cybersecurity · United States
- Born
- Feb 20, 1969
- Age
- 57
- Source
- Cybersecurity
- Residence
- Los Altos Hills, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Tsinghua University; Master of Science, Tsinghua University; Master of Science, University of Manitoba
Net worth over time
Biography
- Michael Xie is the cofounder and chief technology officer of Fortinet, which provides cybersecurity services to businesses like Panasonic and Siemens.
- The Chinese native moved to North America in the 1990s to study engineering at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
- After graduating, Xie worked at several network security companies before cofounding Fortinet with brother Ken Xie in 2000.
- The siblings took the California-based firm public in an IPO nine years later; Michael owns more than 7% of the company.
- Fortinet had $5.3 billion in 2023 revenue and offers services like enterprise firewalls, cloud security and network security.
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