Riku Valpas is a Senior Systems Engineer Manager at Fortinet Inc. Riku leads the pre-sales engineer team in Saudi Arabia.

He has 20 years of experience in the network security space. The past 17 years Riku has worked in the Middle East in various roles, both technical and management. His past employers are Juniper Networks, Nixu and Fortum (IVO Power Engineering).

Riku has a master’s degree in engineering physics from Helsinki University of Technology majoring in nuclear and renewable energy technologies.