We speak with Phil Tee, Zscaler, EVP, Head of AI Innovations at Zenith World 2025 in Las Vegas.
Phil and his team are developing new AI advancements to better secure the use of AI, enabling organizations to integrate and leverage its potential. Phil is responsible for driving AI innovations at Zscaler, leveraging their unique data assets and the latest in AI technology to push forward what’s possible in Sec and DevOps for Zscaler customers. His team’s goal is to generate novel offerings in the cyber market and ensure that our customers benefit from the remarkable pace of AI innovation.
Phil brings the experience of three decades in software and AI entrepreneurship, having founded or co-founded Micromuse, RiverSoft, Promethyan Labs, and Moogsoft. Before joining Zscaler, Phil served as the chairman and CEO of Moogsoft until its acquisition by Dell Technologies. Moogsoft was an early pioneer in the use of AI in operations, credited with founding the AIOps market segment. During his tenure, Phil was directly involved in the groundbreaking technology as a primary inventor in more than 50 patents, and authored or coauthored dozens of academic papers. Before Moogsoft, Phil’s roles at RiverSoft and Micromuse—where he invented Netcool—solidified him as a serial disrupter in operations technology.
In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Phil has advised multiple startups and is an adjunct professor at ASU as well as a visiting researcher at the University of Sussex. Phil has an undergraduate degree in Physics and earned a doctorate in Informatics focused on Network Science and Information Theory from Sussex, where he also sits on the board of the School of Informatics.
