Jay Chaudhry
$11.48B
as of 07/05/24
About Jay Chaudhry
Jay Chaudhry is CEO of Zscaler, a cybersecurity firm he founded in 2008. It went public in March 2018.
He and his family own around 40% of the Nasdaq-listed firm.
Before Zscaler, Chaudhry founded four other tech companies that were all acquired: SecureIT, CoreHarbor, CipherTrust and AirDefense.
In 1996, Chaudhry and his wife, Jyoti, both quit their jobs and used their life savings to start cybersecurity firm SecureIT, his first startup.
His hometown, a village in the Himalayas in India, did not have electricity or running water until he was in the 8th and 10th grade, respectively.
Chaudhry moved to the U.S. in 1980 to attend graduate school and now lives in Nevada, after relocating from the Bay Area.
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United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Security softwareResidence
Reno, NevadaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
08/26/59 (age 64)Number of children
3Education
Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, BHUSelf-made
self-madeJay Chaudhry’s fortune is worth
191K
troy ounces of gold
177K
median U.S. household
115K
median U.S. income
0.23%
U.S. credit card volume
0.046%
GDP of the United States
0.034%
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Chaudhry's first time on a plane was his flight to the U.S. in 1980, after he was admitted to an engineering and management masters program at U. of Cincinnati.
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