Bill Lapp

Bill started out his illustrious career by dropping out of high school and working in auto collision repair. After realizing that he has a complete lack of hand eye coordination and had ruined one too many cars he re-enrolled in school. Upon completing his BS/MS in Computer Science at WPI he timed the job market perfectly by graduating in 2001, a time now referred to as the ‘Dot Com Bubble Burst’. He quickly accepted a job at MIT that provided plenty of fun and sun on the beach but neglected to read the fine print that the beach was in the middle of the South Pacific and he would be responsible for tracking and shooting down nuclear missiles. After shooting down an ICBM or two and saving the free world he observed his colleagues jumping on the corporate hamster wheel and thought “the grass is always greener” right? He re-enrolled in school, received his MBA from Babson College, and spent 15 years doing software development, crisis management and pre-sales in the big data, unified communications, security, and networking industries across international, government, education, large enterprise and startup environments. Now Bill applies years of experience and lessons learned gained by helping hundreds of Zscaler clients transform their business to securely connect any user, workload, or device to any other user, workload, or device via business policies and a great experience. This unique end to end perspective is now used to advise both Zscaler clients and Zscaler itself on how to avoid common technical, people, and strategy pitfalls and how to Experience their World, secured.