Citrix today announced the appointment of Rakesh Narasimhan as group
vice president and general manager. In this role, he will drive strategy
for the company’s market-leading desktop and application virtualization
business with responsibility for a broad portfolio of products including
Citrix XenDesktop® and Citrix XenApp®.
A seasoned tech and business leader, Narasimhan brings more than 25
years of software industry experience to Citrix. Narasimhan spent 15
years at Microsoft serving as general manager for several business lines
in the Server and Tools division covering Microsoft Azure, SQLServer,
Windows Server, Windows Client, virtualization, storage, data protection
and security products. Most recently, he served as president and CEO at
InstallFree, a developer of application portability, virtualization and
access solutions that delivered Microsoft Office as a subscription-based
cloud service to any device. He worked at Oracle in senior roles in the
areas of databases, transaction-processing systems and distributed
systems.
Narasimhan is most passionate about delivering amazing user experiences
to enterprise customers through innovative software, using well-defined
architectures. He will leverage the company’s strong leadership in
desktop and app virtualization to drive integration across the entire
Citrix portfolio. Narasimhan will be based in the Citrix Silicon Valley
headquarters.
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Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Enterprise and Service Provider Division at Citrix
“The appointment of Rakesh Narsimhan brings real industry strength to
the Citrix team. Narasimhan has a deep understanding of technical
strategy and a wealth of experience leading and transforming large
global product teams in high-scale businesses. He is a perfect fit, and
I look forward to working with him in what is a key focus area for the
company.”
Rakesh Narasimhan, Group Vice President and General Manager, Desktops
and Apps at Citrix
“Citrix is transforming virtual desktop and app delivery with its
industry-leading solutions that can be delivered on-premise or from the
cloud. It is an exciting time, and I am honored to join a world-class
team that is as passionate as I am for creating innovative solutions
that incorporate the entire Citrix portfolio to provide better mobile
workforce productivity and success for customers.”
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Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a cloud company that enables mobile
workstyles—empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere,
securely accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily
as they would in their own office. Citrix solutions help IT and service
providers build clouds, leveraging virtualization and networking
technologies to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective
cloud services. With market-leading cloud solutions for mobility,
desktop virtualization, networking, cloud platforms, collaboration and
data sharing, Citrix helps organizations of all sizes achieve the speed
and agility necessary to succeed in a mobile and dynamic world. Citrix
products are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100
million users globally. Annual revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion. Learn
more at www.citrix.com.
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