Sangfor Technologies Founders and Key People

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Question: Who are the founders and key people behind Sangfor Technologies (深信服)?

Answer:

Founders

1. He Chaoxi (何朝曦)

Role:

Co-founder
Chairman
General Manager (CEO equivalent)

Background:

Graduated from University of Science and Technology of China in 1998
Studied automatic control + economic management
Worked at Huawei Technologies from 1998–2000
Founded Sangfor in 2000 with Xiong Wu (Sangfor)

He is the main business leader and long-term strategic driver of Sangfor. (Sangfor)

2. Xiong Wu (熊武)

Role:

Co-founder
Vice Chairman
Deputy General Manager

Background:

Also graduated from USTC in 1998
Worked at Huawei before founding Sangfor
Initially focused more on market/business development (Sangfor)

He and He Chaoxi are the two core founders.

Core Management Team

Feng Yi (冯毅)

Role:

Director
Deputy General Manager

Background:

USTC graduate
Previously worked at ZTE Corporation
Joined Sangfor at founding stage (Sangfor)

Focus:

Product
Engineering management
Operations

Jiang Wenguang (蒋文光)

Role:

Deputy General Manager
CFO

Background:

Previously worked at Tencent
Joined Sangfor in 2010
Handles finance and corporate operations (Sangfor)

Founder DNA

Sangfor has a very typical Chinese enterprise software company founding pattern:

1998
 |
 |  USTC graduates
 |
 +----------------+
 |                |
Huawei          Huawei
R&D             Market
 |                |
 |                |
 +------2000------+
          |
       Sangfor
          |
          |
 Network Security
          |
          |
 Cloud / HCI / VDI
          |
          |
 Enterprise AI

(Sangfor)

Comparison with other Chinese tech founders

Company	Founder background	Initial market
Sangfor	Huawei + USTC engineers	Enterprise security
Huawei	Ren Zhengfei	Telecom equipment
Tencent	Engineering + product	Consumer internet
Alibaba	Internet + commerce	E-commerce
DeepSeek	AI research	Foundation models

Sangfor is closer to Fortinet / Palo Alto Networks / VMware style companies:

Enterprise problems
        |
        |
Deep technical products
        |
        |
Long sales cycles
        |
        |
Large organizations

Interesting engineering angle

The founder story explains Sangfor’s product style:

Huawei-style engineering culture
Enterprise reliability focus
Security-first mindset
Long-term R&D investment

Today Sangfor has expanded into:

Network Security
        +
Private Cloud
        +
HCI
        +
VDI
        +
AI Infrastructure

with more than 7,000 employees and over 100,000 enterprise customers. (Sangfor Technologies)

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