Sanjay Deshmukh Joins Citrix As Area Vice President-India Sub Continent

Citrix Systems has announced the appointment of Sanjay Deshmukh as Area Vice President-India Sub Continent, Citrix Systems India. Deshmukh will be responsible for the company’s entire operations including enterprise and field sales, services, technical pre-sales and the post-sales functions. Deshmukh will be based in the Mumbai offices of Citrix.

Deshmukh joins Citrix from SAP, where he was Vice President for the Business User and Platforms business. He joined SAP as part of their acquisition of Business Objects where he was Country Manager India/ SAARC from 2001 to 2008. Deshmukh started Business Objects in India and built a team that succeeded in establishing Business Objects as a dominant player in the Business Intelligence application space. Deshmukh’s other assignments include tenures with Informix, Tata Unisys and Binary Semantics.

Speaking of his appointment, Deshmukh said, “I am excited to have got this opportunity to lead Citrix in India and take the business to the next level of growth. I look forward to working with an organisation, which is at the forefront of bringing to market innovative technology solutions – be it remote access and application virtualisation to desktop virtualisation. I believe Citrix with its end-to-end virtualisation solutions offering will be able to help Indian enterprises to lower costs, increase flexibility, foster self-service and create a more agile IT environment. I am indeed fortunate to be able to lead an extremely talented team of individuals, who will partner me in maintaining this leadership.”

“We are extremely pleased to have Sanjay join us in the leadership of our India sales operations in the Indian subcontinent. His sales and leadership skills combined with his expertise and experience in technology and his knowledge of the India enterprise market all ensure that Sanjay will be a great addition to the Citrix India team,” said Rob Willis, Vice President, Asia Pacific for Citrix Systems.
Deshmukh takes over from Souma Das, who leaves Citrix after a tenure of eight years to pursue new opportunities.