Howie Xu is the former Senior Vice President of Engineering AI/ML at Palo Alto Networks. Previously, he served as Vice President, AI/ML at Zscaler. Prior to that, he served as the Founder/CEO of TrustPath and worked at Greylock Partners as an EIR. He ran the entire engineering team at Cisco's Cloud Networking and Services Group and was the founding VP of engineering at Big Switch Networks. He founded VMware's networking team and ran it for a decade. He is an alum of Stanford University Graduate School of Business.