Michael Xie

Michael Xie possesses an incredibly rigorous, deeply specialized background in advanced electrical engineering and highly complex software architecture. Honed entirely within elite academic institutions and intense early network security research, his massive background designing hardware-accelerated processing chips provided the exact technical blueprint required to engineer Fortinet's unprecedented, hyper-fast unified threat management hardware.

Michael Xie is a brilliant technology executive and the co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the massive global cybersecurity giant Fortinet. A highly elite engineer with degrees from the University of Manitoba and the University of Southern California, Michael joined forces with his brother, Ken Xie, in 2000 to completely revolutionize enterprise network security. Serving as the absolute technical mastermind behind Fortinet's core architecture, Michael personally engineered the company's highly advanced FortiOS operating system and its incredibly complex, proprietary ASIC processors. Under his relentless technical leadership, Fortinet successfully integrated antivirus, firewall, and intrusion prevention systems into a single, massively scalable unified threat management (UTM) platform, completely dominating the global cybersecurity market and achieving a multi-billion dollar valuation.