Howie Xu

Chief AI and Innovation Officer Gen

Howie Xu leads AI & Innovation at Gen. In this role, Howie is responsible for creating new 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.

Currently, Howie is also the host of “Byte Into Future,” a guest lecturer at Stanford University, and an investor and board member/advisor for various AI companies. Howie is an alum of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a frequent speaker at technical and investment conferences worldwide.