Kevin Rubin

Chief Financial Officer Zscaler

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Kevin Rubin is Chief Financial Officer of Zscaler, the Nasdaq-listed cloud security company built on the premise that if all traffic is inspected in the cloud, the corporate network perimeter stops being the thing that defines trust. He joined in May 2025, succeeding Remo Canessa, the CFO who had taken the company public, and he runs global financial strategy, operations, planning and analysis, and investor relations. His hire was pitched by the company against a stated ambition of reaching $5 billion in annual recurring revenue. What he brings to that is an unusually specific kind of experience: eight years as CFO of Alteryx, a company he took public and then stayed with through the full arc of a growth software business, including a period when he stepped in as interim chief executive during a leadership gap. He is a former Arthur Andersen accountant who has now been finance chief of six or more technology companies.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Chief Financial Officer of Zscaler, with the appointment announced 29 May 2025 and employment commencing 26 May 2025, per the company’s Form 8-K.
• Succeeded Remo Canessa, Zscaler’s long-serving CFO, whose retirement took effect 2 June 2025 — a planned handover rather than an abrupt one.
• Named in six separate Zscaler 8-K filings during 2026, the most recent in early September 2026, which is direct filed evidence that he remains the incumbent officer.
• Served as Chief Financial Officer of Alteryx from April 2016 to March 2024 and led the analytics company through its initial public offering.
• Took the additional role of interim Chief Executive Officer of Alteryx from January to March 2024, covering the company’s chief executive transition.
• Was Chief Financial Officer of BetterUp, the coaching and workforce development company, from July 2024 to May 2025.
• Previously Chief Financial Officer of MSC Software, Pictage, DataDirect and MRV Communications, a run of finance leadership across simulation software, consumer services, data infrastructure and networking hardware.
• Began his career at Arthur Andersen advising public and private companies; holds a CPA licence on inactive status.

Professional Journey

Rubin trained as an accountant, starting at Arthur Andersen where he advised both public and private companies. That grounding — audit and technical accounting before operating finance — shows in the shape of what followed, which is a career almost entirely spent as a sitting chief financial officer rather than climbing through controller and FP&A roles at a single employer.

The earlier CFO posts were at MRV Communications, DataDirect, Pictage and MSC Software: networking equipment, data infrastructure, consumer photography services and engineering simulation software respectively. It is a varied set, and the through-line is company stage rather than sector — finance organisations being built or rebuilt at companies that were either scaling or preparing to transact.

His defining tenure was at Alteryx, where he was Chief Financial Officer from April 2016 to March 2024. He arrived roughly a year before the company’s initial public offering and led it through that listing, then stayed for the full public-company chapter that followed — scaling global finance operations, executing acquisitions and raising capital. In January 2024 Alteryx found itself between chief executives and Rubin took the interim CEO role alongside his own, holding it until March 2024. He left the company that same month.

After a short interval he became Chief Financial Officer of BetterUp in July 2024, guiding financial strategy and operational scale at the private workforce coaching company, and stayed until May 2025.

Zscaler recruited him that month. The brief is scale: overseeing the global finance organisation and supporting the operational build-out behind Zscaler’s next phase of growth, explicitly framed by the company against a target of $5 billion in annual recurring revenue. As of September 2026 he continues to sign and appear in the company’s SEC filings as chief financial officer.

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Business Economics with an emphasis in Accounting

He also holds a Certified Public Accountant licence, currently on inactive status.