Citrix Appoints Yatin Kavishwar As Its Business Head

Citrix, is the cloud company that enables mobile workstyles—empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere; announced the appointment of Yatin Kavishwar as the Head of Government & Defense Business for India region.

Sanjay Deshmukh, Area Vice President, Citrix India, said, “Given Citrix’s leadership position in offering Cloud computing, Desktop Virtualisation and Enterprise Mobility solutions we can help government entities deliver its services to the citizens and all the stake holders in a centralised and secure manner where they can access any service from any location and any device. We believe we can play a key role in helping Indian government successfully and efficiently implement all the e-governance initiatives.”

In his new role, Yatin will spearhead Citrix’s business and growth initiatives in the government and defence segment customers in the region. Under Yatin’s leadership, Citrix will work towards collaborating closely with government agencies and help them successfully implement the various e-governance initiatives including the State, Central and Integrated mission mode projects.

With a career spanning over 13 years, Yatin has played an important role in devising and executing strategies and leading organisational efforts that have produced multimillion-dollar results, valuable business partnerships, business coverage and solid growth. Prior to this, he was the Business Manager, Public Sector at Cisco Systems. Yatin’s expertise includes strong sales and business exposure to segments like enterprise public sector, IT/ITES, retail and distribution, manufacturing and SME segments.

“In the government segment, it is of utmost importance to deliver and receive digital information and services anytime, anywhere and from any device-safely, securely and with fewer resources. Citrix solutions enable government agencies to sharpen the focus of IT resources-efficiently, securely and effectively-to address government’s most pressing mission challenges and goals. I look forward to leveraging our strengths and reinforcing Citrix’s pre-eminent position in the government segment.” said Yatin Kavishwar, Head - Government & Defence Business - India Subcontinent at Citrix.