Howie Xu

Howie Xu has been the head of AI for three public companies in the past 8 years. In his current role of Chief AI & Innovation Officer at Gen, Howie is responsible for creating new AI native products and business for the Company’s long-term vision both in Cyber Safety and beyond. Prior to joining Gen, Howie was the Senior Vice President of Engineering and AI/ML at Palo Alto Networks and the VP of AI/ML at Zscaler. He was the CEO and Co-founder of the AI security startup TrustPath before it was acquired by Zscaler. He was also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock Partners, head of R&D for Cisco’s Cloud Networking and Services Group, and the founding VP of Engineering at Big Switch Networks. During his decade-long tenure at VMware, Howie founded and led VMware’s networking team. He was a pioneer in Intrusion Detection System open source project.