Senior Associate Peter Baiocco recently placed Michael King to head up APAC Sales and Field Ops for Citrix Systems to support the recent acquisition of Xensource. Michael King, former VP GM APAC at Borland Software, will lead the expansion of Xensource in the APAC region for Citrix's new Virtualization Server Business Unit which is lead by Xensource CEO, Peter Levine.
In his new role, Michael will oversee growth of the company's sales and channel organizations for the APAC region to support the new build out for the Xen product. Prior to his long career at Borland Software, Michael served in various roles at Sterling Commerce and Gartner. Michael will be based in Citrix's Singapore office.
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Citrix Systems Appoints Director of Inside Sales to support recent acquisition of Xensource
Ryan Thomas, Former Scriptlogic VP, Will lead the expansion of inside sales for Citrix’s new Virtualization Server Business Unit which will be lead by Xensource CEO, Peter Levine.
Executive Search firm Daversa Partners have recruited Ryan Thomas as the new director of inside sales at Citrix Systems. In his new role, Thomas will oversee growth of the company’s inside sales and channel organizations for the Americas region to support the new sales build out supporting the Xen product line. Ryan has a vast amount of experience in inside sales playing a crucial role at Seagate Software and Veritas based in Florida.
The search was lead by Senior Associate, Peter Baiocco. Citrix Systems, Inc. designs, develops and markets technology solutions that enable applications to be delivered, supported and shared on demand. Its Application Delivery Infrastructure products are designed to offer solutions across all dimensions of application delivery. It packages and markets application delivery solutions, and it has organized its products into five principal product groupings: Application Virtualization, Application Networking, Management Systems, Online Services and Advanced Solutions. The Company markets and licenses its products through multiple channels, such as value-added resellers, channel distributors, system integrators (Sis), independent software vendors (ISVs), its Websites and original equipment manufacturers. In January 2007, the Company acquired Ardence Inc. In March 2007, the Company acquired thinGenius, Ltd. In September 2007, it acquired QuickTree, a software technology provider. In October 2007, Citrix Systems, Inc. acquired XenSource, Inc.
Daversa Partners; located in Stamford, San Francisco, and Austin, recruits C-level executives exclusively for venture backed companies in the BPO, enterprise software and consumer spaces.
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