# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gil-shwed
# Generated: 2026-09-08T02:41:25.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gil-shwed"
name: "Gil Shwed"
slug: "gil-shwed"
description: "Gil Shwed is an Israeli software engineer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Check Point, one of Israel's largest technology companies and the world's largest pure-play cybersecurity company. Shwed was CEO from 1994 until 2024, the longest tenure for a Nasdaq-listed company."
tagline: "Israeli businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gil_Shwed_(born_1968)_at_World_Economic_Forum_Davos_2021.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.97
  momentum:             0.3962390866353258
  historical:           7.055728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 242
sources:
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    title: "Швед, Гиль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "جيل شويد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "جيل شويد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Shwed"
    title: "Gil Shwed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Shwed"
    title: "Gil Shwed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "گیل شوواد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93"
    title: "גיל שויד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D5%AB%D5%AC_%D5%87%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%A4"
    title: "Գիլ Շվեդ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2909403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump