Citrix Systems announced the addition of three new
executive hires to drive leadership in enabling the personal cloud.
Erin Hintz has joined as vice president, global marketing
and ecommerce, Online Services Division; Shankar Iyer as vice president of
product management, Receiver and End-user Services; and Bob Schultz, as group
vice president and general manager, Enterprise Desktops and Applications.
All three industry veterans will be based at the
company’s newly expanded Silicon Valley headquarters.
Hintz will lead go-to-market efforts for the rapidly
growing Online Services Division at Citrix, which provides the company’s line
of secure, easy-to-use cloud-based solutions including GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC
that enable people to collaborate and work from anywhere with anyone.
Hintz brings a wealth of enterprise, SMB, consumer and
OEM marketing experience to Citrix. Most recently she led the worldwide
marketing organization of Symantec’s Norton consumer business.
Iyer will drive product strategy for personal cloud and
end-user services with Citrix Receiver, enabling anytime access to virtual
desktops and applications from any device.
Iyer comes to Citrix from the WebEx division of Cisco,
where he led the formation of a Cloud Applications business unit focused on
next-generation SaaS and cloud applications for large and small enterprises.
Schultz will drive the company’s market leading desktop
and application virtualization business with responsibility for Citrix
XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp.
Schultz comes to Citrix from HP where he spent nine years
in a variety of senior leadership roles across the Enterprise Server, Storage
and Networking businesses, most recently as vice president of operations,
planning and strategy.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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