FireEye

Ashar Aziz / Founder & CEO

Ashar Aziz holds over 20 patents in the areas of networking, network security, and datacenter virtualization. Prior to FireEye, Ashar founded Terraspring, a company focused on datacenter automation and virtualization. Terraspring was successfully acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002, where Ashar then served as CTO of the company's N1 program. Before Terraspring, Ashar spent twelve years at Sun as a distinguished engineer focused on networking and network security. Ashar holds an S.B. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the UC Regents Fellowship.

David Butler / Vice President of Sales & Business Development

As vice president of sales and business development, Dave is responsible for FireEye's global sales efforts. Dave brings more than 20 years of experience, most recently as vice president of worldwide sales and business development for Aruba Networks, where he was responsible for sales growth from zero to well over $100 million per year, and contributed to tripling the company's valuation annually, in less than three years. Prior to Aruba, he held senior management positions with FORE Systems, IBM, Inktomi, and Network Systems Corporation. Dave has a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.

Fengmin Gong / Chief Security Content Officer

As chief security content officer, Gong is responsible for security content research and productization. He brings over 25 years of security expertise formerly serving as founder & chief scientist at Palo Alto Networks, chief scientist & director of Intrusion Detection Technologies at McAfee, a founder of IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), and a director at Advanced Networking Research. His academic background includes professorial appointments at Duke University and North Carolina State University as well as research roles at MCNC and Washington University. Gong holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.Eng. and M.Eng. in computer science from Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Bahman Mahbod / Vice President of Engineering

As vice president of engineering, Bahman is responsible for FireEye's research and development efforts. With over 20 years of solid leadership and management experience, Bahman has dedicated his career to providing enterprise networking and security solutions working with organizations such as Gemini Mobile Technologies, FaceTime Communications, IBM, Sybase and Vantive. Bahman holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Stuart Staniford / Chief Scientist

As chief scientist, Staniford is responsible for fundamental research and core technology design at FireEye. He brings over 14 years of experience as both a researcher and practitioner in computer intrusion detection. He has written a number of pioneering research papers and served as president of Invicta Consulting, principal scientist at Nevis Networks, and founder of Silicon Defense, a network intrusion detection company. Staniford holds a Ph.D. in Physics and a M.S. in Computer Science & Physics from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in Mathematical Physics from the University of Sussex, UK.

Zane M. Taylor / Vice President of Operations

Zane M. Taylor is vice president of worldwide operations for FireEye, Inc. His over 25 years of experience includes roles as vice president of operations at Citrix Systems and vice president of worldwide operations for NetScaler, Inc. Prior to joining NetScaler, Zane was director of operations at Exodus Communications, where he developed core operational procedures and processes in addition to managing several global systems implementations. Zane has also held senior management positions at Akamba, International Networks Services, and Cisco Systems.