Howie Xu is VP of Machine Learning and AI at Zscaler and CEO/Co-founder of AI start-up TrustPath that was acquired by Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) in 2018. Before that, he was an EIR of Greylock Partners and a senior executive at Cisco and VMware. During Howie's decade long tenure at VMware, Howie founded and led the VMware’s networking unit and helped to lead the company to go from a tiny start-up to a $40B market cap public company. Howie is an independent board member at various hi-tech companies, a guest lecturer at Stanford University, and a frequent speaker at investment/technology conferences worldwide.