Fortinet Inc (FTNT) Annual JPMorgan World Expertise, Media and Communications Convention (Transcript)

Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT) Annual JPMorgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference May 13, 2024 2:30 PM ET

Company Participants

John Whittle – Chief Operating Officer
Christiane Ohlgart – Chief Accounting Officer

Conference Call Participants

Brian Essex – JPMorgan

Brian Essex

Alright. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Brian Essex. I’m JPMorgan Security Software Analyst, and thank you for joining us today for Fortinet.

With us today, very pleased to have John Whittle, Fortinet’s Chief Operating Officer, and Christiane Ohlgart, their Chief Accounting Officer, soon to be Chief Financial Officer.

And then I don’t know. Is Aaron here somewhere? Do you need to do a safe harbor? No? Okay, we’re good? All right. Every company is different. So, thank you both for joining me. I really appreciate it. And John, I think it’s a unique opportunity to have you with us.

So maybe for those that may not be familiar with you, maybe a brief intro and I think you’ve been with the company in quite a long time.

John Whittle

Correct.

Brian Essex

Yeah. So maybe your perspective on how Fortinet’s sales leadership and culture have evolved and what your experience has been at the company would be helpful like background?

John Whittle

Sounds good. All right. Thank you, Brian. Thanks for including us. We really appreciate it. It’s great to be here. Thanks, everybody, for joining us. So my name is John Whittle, I’m Chief Operating Officer. I’ve been at Fortinet for 19 years. I joined in 2006, a few years before our IPO, and my main mission throughout my time here has been trying to help support Ken and Michael and the team really grow this business and grow it in a disciplined way, and properly disciplined way, and, we’ve built up a pretty good track record so far, and we feel really good about the future as well.

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