Michael Xie is listed as a founder of Fortinet on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
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Michael Xie
Founder
Michael Xie is listed as a founder of Fortinet on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
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Quick Facts
- Role Founder
- Company Fortinet
- Country United States
- Industry AI in Cybersecurity
- Founded 2000
- Known For Fortinet's core strategic bet — that networking and security should converge into one platform built on…
- Last Reviewed Aug 2026
Executive Summary
Michael Xie is listed as a founder of Fortinet on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
Career Timeline
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2000
Company founded
Fortinet was founded in 2000 per the company profile source on file.
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2000
Development
2000: Brothers Ken Xie and Michael Xie found Fortinet in Sunnyvale, California, to build converged networking and security appliances on custom ASIC silicon.
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2009
Development
2009: Fortinet completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq under ticker FTNT.
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2025
Development
2025: Fortinet expands FortiAI across the Security Fabric platform, adding agentic AI capabilities and controls for monitoring employee use of generative AI services.
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2026
Product
June 2026: Fortinet previews and then launches FortiSOC at its Accelerate 2026 conference, a unified, cloud-delivered SOC platform combining FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, FortiSOAR, and FortiTIP with agentic AI investigation.
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2026
Product
May 2026 (Q1 2026 results): Fortinet reports billings up 31% to $2.09 billion and total revenue up 20% to $1.85 billion year over year, with product revenue up 41%.
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Fortinet — Security AI product
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