Michael Xie

About Michael Xie

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. It had revenue of $3.3 billion in 2021.

Fortinet had $5.3 billion in 2023 revenue and offers services like enterprise firewalls, cloud security and network security.