Peerapong Jongvibool is Fortinet’s Vice President for Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Leading a diverse team, he is committed to meeting Fortinet’s business growth aspirations for the region. Aligning to the brand’s vision and mission as the global cybersecurity leader, Peerapong is passionate about delivering the Fortinet technology and solutions to secure people, devices, and data everywhere – for the private, public sectors and communities. He also leads the Fortinet channels team in scaling Fortinet’s outreach to clients and markets through a robust business partners ecosystem.

Peerapong was previously the Regional Director for Indochina, overseeing Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. His responsibilities include crafting business growth strategies, driving operations excellence and building the channels ecosystem breadth and depth in these five countries. Before assuming his regional roles, Peerapong was the Country Manager for Fortinet Thailand.

Prior to joining Fortinet in 2009, Peerapong was a Sales Manager at Alcatel-Lucent (Thailand), focusing on channel and sales development for the Government and Utilities segments. In the earlier years of his career, he held strategic positions at Allied Telesyn (Asia), Sumitomo Corporation, Worachak International and Nera (Thailand).

Peerapong holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering (Major in Computing) from the Mahanakorn University of Technology.

Jim Richberg’s role as Fortinet’s Head of Cyber Policy and Global Field CISO leverages his 40 years’ experience driving innovation in cybersecurity and threat intelligence. At Fortinet he focuses on helping government and companies take actionable steps to improve their cybersecurity. He led industry’s collaboration with the US Government in creating a ‘Secure by Design’ pledge to leverage market forces in driving broad and measurable improvements in cybersecurity.

Prior to joining Fortinet, he served as the National Intelligence Manager for Cyber, the senior Federal Executive focused on cyber intelligence within the $80B+/100,000 employee US Intelligence Community (IC). He led the implementation of cyber strategy for the 17 departments and agencies of the IC, set integrated priorities on cyber threat, and served as the senior cyber advisor to two Directors of National Intelligence. He also oversaw implementation of a multi-year Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative for Presidents Bush and Obama. Before joining the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Mr. Richberg served for 20 years at the Central Intelligence Agency in a variety of analytic, operational, and technical positions.

Kelvin Chua is the Senior Regional Director of Systems Engineering for Fortinet Southeast Asia, where he leads a team of solution architects, specialists, and
engineers in delivering cutting-edge security technologies and solutions.

With over three decades of experience in cybersecurity, networking, and business development, Kelvin is recognized as a seasoned leader and trusted expert in areas such as incident response management, breach detection, telecommunications network security, and ethical hacking.

In his current role, Kelvin is responsible for aligning technical strategies with business objectives, ensuring the seamless integration of Fortinet’s advanced
technologies to address customer needs and market demands. He collaborates closely with country sales leaders to drive growth, optimize resources, and enhance customer satisfaction across the region.

Prior to joining Fortinet, Kelvin served as the APAC Systems Engineering Director at Blue Coat Systems, where he played a pivotal role in achieving regional success. His career also includes leadership and technical roles at Allied Telesis, Symantec, and Check Point Software, where he gained extensive
experience in engineering, consulting, and technical enablement.

Kelvin holds a Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Rashish Pandey is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Fortinet APAC. Rashish has spent most of his career working at the intersection of Marketing, Technology & Business. In his current role he is responsible for marketing, field CISO and business development.

Prior to joining Fortinet he was Senior Director Marketing, APJC at Cisco systems. He was responsible for APJ marketing strategy, ASEAN Field marketing, thought leadership and content marketing across Cisco product portfolio. Prior to joining Cisco Systems he was APAC Head of Unified Communications & Mobility at British Telecom where he drove product management and marketing initiatives for the new world of work. He has also held marketing leadership positions at Microsoft focusing on revenue growth and market share for key products like Microsoft Office, Visual Studio and driving early adoption of emerging technologies.

Rashish holds an MBA from Asian Institute of Management in Manila and a Bachelor’s in Business studies from University of Delhi.