Howie Xu serves as the Chief AI & Innovation Officer at Gen, an S&P500 company, and is a Lecturer at Stanford. His career highlights include significant leadership roles in artificial intelligence and technology.

Previously, Xu was the SVP of AI at Palo Alto Networks and the CEO/Co-founder of TrustPath. He also held the position of VP of AI/ML at Zscaler and was an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) at Greylock Partner. A notable achievement in his early career was founding VMware Networking.