Russ Schafer
Executive Vice President Of Marketing at Fortinet
San Ramon, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuss Schafer is an award-winning product and marketing executive with deep experience scaling B2B and B2C businesses across startups and global enterprises, currently serving as Executive Vice President of Marketing at Fortinet. He combines general management and full P&L ownership with hands-on product, engineering and go-to-market leadership from roles at THX, Adap.tv, Yahoo!, Intel and Cloud Raxak, driving outcomes such as IPO readiness, high-value acquisitions, and Emmy-winning products. Known for building new revenue streams—licensing audio/video IP, launching SaaS platforms, and forging strategic partnerships with Google, IBM, Intel and HP—he excels at translating emerging tech (AI, ML, cloud, security, IoT, AR/VR) into marketable products. His career is marked by measurable commercial impact (multi-hundred-million dollar revenue growth, major acquisitions) and elite recognition like an Intel Achievement Award and a TV Academy Engineering Emmy. Based on the Central Coast and now in the Bay Area, he brings both corporate rigor and startup grit—and, notably, a creative streak as a habitual guitar hot rodder and father to three cats (one adopted opossum).
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business, MBA Business at Duke UniversityBBA Management, BBA Management at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (73)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TwoFistedJustice/weather
Sep 2018 - Aug 2021
Command line node app for getting weather for a user specified location
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
node-command-linenode-applocationnodejscli
TwoFistedJustice/ADandD-Stat-Lookup-1e2e
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 11 pushes in 26 days
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