Feb 152013

Citrix Appoints New SVP and General Manager

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SANTA CLARA, CA – Citrix today announced the appointment of Sudhakar Ramakrishna as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company’s Desktop and Cloud Division. Ramakrishna joins Citrix from Polycom, where he served as President of Products and Services. A seasoned business and product executive, Ramakrishna brings more than 20 years of leadership experience to Citrix, including broad expertise across the mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Before Polycom, he held senior roles at Motorola, Stoke Networks, 3COM and US Robotics. Ramakrishna succeeds Gordon Payne, who recently stepped up to a new position at Citrix as SVP of Solutions, responsible for driving the design, development and delivery of integrated solutions across the entire Citrix product portfolio. About Citrix Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the cloud computing company that enables mobile workstyles – empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they would in their own office – simply and securely. Citrix cloud computing solutions help IT and service providers build both private and public clouds – leveraging virtualization and networking technologies to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective services for mobile workstyles. With market leading solutions for mobility, desktop virtualization, cloud networking, cloud platforms, collaboration, and data sharing, Citrix helps organizations of all sizes achieve the kind of speed and agility necessary to succeed in an increasingly mobile and dynamic world. Citrix products are in use at more than 260,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Annual revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion. ###