Gil Shwed
Tel Aviv, Israel
Israel
software, Self Made
$3,000,000,000
715
#715 Billionaires 2019
#85 Richest In Tech 2017
Gil Shwed, considered the inventor of the modern computer firewall, founded Check Point Software in 1993 with Shlomo Kramer and Marius Nacht.The company went public on the Nasdaq Stock Market in 1996.Shwed owns about 15% and is the company's CEO; Nacht sits on the board.Checkpoint, which develops cybersecurity software, counts many of the largest U.S. companies as its clients.In late 2016 Check Point found a breach in some 1 million Google accounts and worked with Google to fight the cyber attack.
Shwed first joined the billionaires list in 2001, only to fall off in 2003 when the tech bubble burst. He returned to the billionaire ranks in 2011.Shwed sits on the boards of the Youth University of Tel Aviv University and Yecholot Association, which works to reduce dropout rates in high schools.
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