Nirav Shah

Nirav Shah leads the products and solutions team at Fortinet where he focuses on the Security-Driven Networking portfolio, which includes SD-WAN, network firewall, SASE, segmentation and NOC products. With extensive experience working with enterprises and service providers, Nirav is responsible for developing Go-to-Market strategy, messaging, launches and thought leadership. Prior to joining Fortinet, Nirav worked as a product lead at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for integrated services routers and SD-WAN development. He worked with large enterprise customers re-designing WAN infrastructure and bringing new innovations to market. Nirav also led the security and WAN optimization integrations of Cisco’s networking products to simplify enterprise branch and campus networks. Nirav completed his masters at University of Southern California and worked at Qualcomm as corporate R&D engineer, focusing on wireless and smart IoT sensors prior joining to Cisco. Specialties: Secure SD-WAN, SASE, Network Firewall, IPS, Segmentation, Cybersecurity, SD-Branch, Management and Analytics, Automation, Security-Driven Networking.