FireEye Corporate
Ashar founded FireEye in 2004. He 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. (Scientiae Baccalaureus) 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.
