Howie Xu

Howie is a serial entrepreneur, technology executive, and investor.  Howie is the Senior Vice President of Palo Alto Networks.  Before that, he was the CEO/Founder of TrustPath before it was acquired by Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS). Before TrustPath, Howie was an EIR at Greylock Partners, a top Venture Capital in Silicon Valley that invested in Facebook, Airbnb, LinkedIn, and Palo Alto Networks very early on.  Howie was an executive at Cisco and VMware. During his decade-long tenure at VMware, Howie founded and led VMware’s networking team and helped lead the company from a start-up to a $40 billion market cap public company. Howie is also a Stanford Graduate School of Business alum and guest lecturer, an independent board member at various hi-tech companies.