Citrix Elects Ajei S. Gopal to Its Board of Directors
September 20 2017 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) today announced the election
of Dr. Ajei S. Gopal, president and chief executive officer for
ANSYS, Inc., to its board of directors, effective immediately.
Dr. Gopal is a 30+ year software and technology industry veteran
having served in leadership roles at Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, CA
Technologies, IBM, and, most recently, ANSYS, the global leader in
engineering simulation. In addition, Dr. Gopal founded a startup in
the early 2000s, and has served as an operating partner at Silver
Lake Partners. He holds a PhD and MS degree in computer science
from Cornell University.
“We are fortunate to have Ajei join the Citrix board,” said Bob
Calderoni, executive chairman for Citrix. “He has a rare
combination of deep technical expertise and business acumen in a
wide range of business settings from start-up to Fortune 100
companies. He brings great knowledge and experience in business
growth strategies, investment discipline, as well as product
development and innovation.”
Dr. Gopal will join the compensation committee, and in his new
board role, qualifies as an independent director.
About Ajei Gopal
Dr. Gopal, 55, assumed the position of chief executive officer
at ANSYS in January 2017, after being appointed as president and
chief operating officer in August 2016. He has served on the ANSYS
board since 2011. Prior to his appointment as president at ANSYS,
he served as operating partner at Silver Lake Partners. He has also
served as interim president and chief operating officer at
Symantec, guiding the company through the appointment of a
permanent CEO. Previously, he has served as a senior vice president
and general manager at Hewlett-Packard; as an executive vice
president at CA Technologies; and as executive vice president and
chief technology officer for Symantec. Before that, he spent 9
years at IBM, initially with IBM research and later in IBM’s
software group. Dr. Gopal holds 23 U.S. patents.
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) aims to power a world where people,
organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to
make the extraordinary possible. We help customers reimagine the
future of work by providing the most comprehensive secure digital
workspace that unifies the apps, data and services people need to
be productive, and simplifies IT’s ability to adopt and manage
complex cloud environments. Citrix solutions are in use by more
than 400,000 organizations including 99 percent of the Fortune 100
and 98 percent of the Fortune 500.
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