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Michael Xie
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Cybersecurity
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Los Altos Hills, California
- Education
- Tsinghua University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)Tsinghua University (Master of Science)University of Manitoba (Master of Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
Assets
- Fortinet Inc.244,410 shares @ --FTNT-US
- Fortinet Inc.56,526,518 shares @ --FTNT-US
- Fortinet Inc.209,445 shares @ --FTNT-US
- Fortinet Inc.0 shares @ --FTNT-US
- Fortinet Inc.69,020 shares @ --FTNT-US
- Fortinet Inc.0 shares @ --FTNT-US
- Fortinet Inc.0 shares @ --FTNT-US
- Fortinet Inc.324,285 shares @ --FTNT-US
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.