
	Mr. Ahmed Rubaie has been the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Fortinet Inc. since April 2013. Mr. Rubaie is a highly accomplished executive with extensive financial, operational and global business management experience. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Ariba Inc. from August 10, 2008 to September 30, 2012 and August 2008 to September 30, 2012 respectively and served as its Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Rubaie joined Ariba August 2008 from Avery Dennison Corporation where he served as Vice President of Finance for its Retail Information Services group and previously as Corporate Vice President of Internal Audit and Tax. He joined Avery Dennison in December 2000, as Vice President of Taxes in a Staff Officer role. He served in several key positions at BHP Billiton. He served as Vice President of Commercial of Avery Dennison Corporation&#39;s Global Diamonds and Industrial Minerals Operations based in Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Rubaie held various strategic tax positions in San Francisco and an overseas assignment in Santiago, Chile, as Tax Counsel. Before joining BHP in 1994, he served as an International Tax Consultant in Detroit, Mich., and Washington, D.C., at the Public Accounting Firms of Deloitte &amp; Touche and Coopers &amp; Lybrand. He has been a Director of United Way of Greater Los Angeles since June 2006. He also serves on the Board of Junior Achievement of Southern California, and has previously served on the Board of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra. He is active in various Professional and Industry Organizations. In 1988, Mr. Rubaie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Management from Albion College in Albion, Mich. and in 1992 he earned a Juries Doctorate degree from the University of Detroit School of Law.
