Adam Pulsakowski heads the Enterprise Technical team at Citrix UK where he has spent the last 5 years with his team evangelizing how customers can leverage technical solutions to achieve business outcomes. With much of his time spent focusing on the role that technologies can play in employee experience, process optimization and cloud transformation.

Adam's career in IT started 20 years ago, where during the first phase of his career he spent several years learning about the different roles within IT while working for two large global Enterprise organizations. Following this he moved to the second stage of his career where he has been marrying customer challenges and technical solutions during his time with Cisco, Citrix and start-up organizations.

Cloud, security, mobility, applications, data and access are just some of the areas that Adam focuses on to make sure that organizations can deliver the services that they need to be successful in a rapidly changing world."

Clare Leighton is a Senior Field Marketing Manager at Citrix UK which she joined in August 2019. She has been instrumental in setting up IT sustainability messaging and launching the marketing campaign. She has also spent a year working with one of our key customers, Centrica, to bring the story of how their foresighted approach to digital transformation saw them come smoothly through lockdown and moving their entire workforce from engineers to call centre agents to work from home.

She works with three teams, financial services and insurance, central government and Enterprise, which is a mixture of verticals, but with a focus on retail and utilities.
With a passion for Technology for Good, she recently published her first advertorial in MyGreenPod, the sustainability supplement for The Guardian, on how old and redundant laptops and desktops could be repurposed in order to help address the #digitialdivide which has become more visible with remote teaching during lockdown.

Nikos Giannopoulos has been a Senior Market Development Sales Engineer since May 2019. He is based in Greece and covers the South Eastern Europe region. He has been a citrite for 14 years and has worked in several roles such as Quality Assurance and Professional Services. Nikos, as a Generalist Sales Engineer, is covering the full Citrix portfolio ranging from Application Delivery and Security to Workspace, from on-prem solutions to cloud solutions. Nikos is closely collaborating with the sales representatives providing technical support on customer deals, enterprise, corporate, and mid-market, across the sales cycle by leveraging a strong technical knowledge of Citrix solutions.

Safi brings a passion for people and technology together with over 20 years of experience in IT to help organisations unlock new ways of working and defining a richer, more productive employee experience. As Field CTO, Safi is responsible for supporting strategic customer and partner relationships, assessing market needs and industry trends to help shape product priorities. Safi is an industry speaker on the future of work and evangelist for Citrix solutions.

Tim Minahan is the Executive Vice President, Business Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Citrix, where he has a proactive role in helping to drive focused strategic initiatives and the company’s overall business strategy. In addition, he leads global marketing strategy and operations for the company’s vision of securely delivering the world’s most important apps and data to enable people and businesses to work better.

A technology industry veteran who specializes in defining new markets and positioning companies to own them, Minahan has served in a broad range of business leadership roles at leading enterprise software, cloud, and services firms. He most recently spearheaded SAP’s successful transition to the cloud as CMO of the company’s Cloud and Line of Business unit. Minahan joined SAP when the company acquired Ariba, where he was SVP of Business Network Strategy and global CMO.

At Ariba, Minahan led the commercial strategy for the Ariba Network, the world’s largest and most global business network, and oversaw the design and execution of go-to-market programs and marketing initiatives to fuel its growth as a leading cloud company. Previously, Minahan was senior vice president of marketing at Procuri Inc., where he helped drive the company’s strategic direction and emergence as one of the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) application providers. He also served as chief services and research officer at Aberdeen Group, a leading independent market research firm, and held several leadership roles at Reed Business Information.

Minahan is on the board of Made in a Free World, a non-profit technology company that is using the power of networks and big data to detect and mitigate forced labor from global supply chains. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and completed the CMO Program at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.

A Masters graduate in Telecommunications and Network Engineering from Australia, Arjun has been representing Citrix in the Middle East and North Africa Regions as a principle sales engineer and Lead Technology evangelist for the last 7 years architecting and envisioning enterprise customers with their virtualization, mobility, security, networking and digital workspace transformation initiatives. As an ardent and passionate supporter of Citrix technologies and innovation, Arjun has been at forefront of leading the technical and business value conversations with all levels of audience from influencers to decision makers of large enterprise customers in the region and working as a messenger between global product, engineering, marketing teams and the field partners and customers.

Clare Leighton is a Senior Field Marketing Manager at Citrix UK which she joined in August 2019. She has been instrumental in setting up IT sustainability messaging and launching the marketing campaign. She has also spent a year working with one of our key customers, Centrica, to bring the story of how their foresighted approach to digital transformation saw them come smoothly through lockdown and moving their entire workforce from engineers to call centre agents to work from home.

She works with three teams, financial services and insurance, central government and Enterprise, which is a mixture of verticals, but with a focus on retail and utilities.

With a passion for Technology for Good, she recently published her first advertorial in MyGreenPod, the sustainability supplement for The Guardian, on how old and redundant laptops and desktops could be repurposed in order to help address the #digitialdivide which has become more visible with remote teaching during lockdown.

Calvin Hsu joined Citrix in 2004 and is currently Vice President of Product Management. During tenure at the company, he has held a variety of leadership positions in product marketing, mergers and acquisitions, and product management. Today, he is responsible for the product strategy and development of the company’s solutions for virtual apps and desktops, cloud platforms and compliance. Prior to Citrix, he held positions in storage networking and graphics software companies. He holds degrees from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kent has extensive experience in managing complex technological solutions with 25 years of experience with management. Kent has contributed to several organisational changes and has a solid experience with all aspects of staff functions – including the special conditions that apply within the political part of the area. Kent’s focus is on organizational development, digitization and optimization – in particular the technological possibilities for supporting a given production.

Clare Leighton is a Senior Field Marketing Manager at Citrix UK which she joined in August 2019. She has been instrumental in setting up IT sustainability messaging and launching the marketing campaign. She has also spent a year working with one of our key customers, Centrica, to bring the story of how their foresighted approach to digital transformation saw them come smoothly through lockdown and moving their entire workforce from engineers to call centre agents to work from home.

She works with three teams, financial services and insurance, central government and Enterprise, which is a mixture of verticals, but with a focus on retail and utilities.

With a passion for Technology for Good, she recently published her first advertorial in MyGreenPod, the sustainability supplement for The Guardian, on how old and redundant laptops and desktops could be repurposed in order to help address the #digitialdivide which has become more visible with remote teaching during lockdown.

Christian has been working in the IT sector since 2001. Before he joined Asamer in 2013, he was employed in several IT service providers.

Christian used to be Master Citrix Certified Instructor in EMEA the last 7 years, before he joined Citrix three years ago. His consulting & architecture expertise from different verticals and customer scales, paired with deep technical knowledge and understanding of customers’ needs are the spice that make it interesting to listen to what he has to say.

Benita Sabharwal is a Field Marketing Manager at Citrix UK. She has worked in the IT industry for 10 years supporting numerous large and smaller tech brands with their marketing strategy and campaigns. With Citrix since 2018, Benita has worked closely with Mid-Market, SMB and Public sectors teams; creating engaging customer events (face to face and virtual) to help support our ongoing relationships. Benita has a passion for supporting worthy causes and was a core member of the Citrix Million Makers team ‘TeamTrix’ in 2019 where she helped raise £104,670 for the UK’s chosen charity The Prince’s Trust.

Rob McGregor owns a couple of businesses in Oxfordshire. He founded a bar called The Keep and a spirits company making gin called Albino Flamingo. Covid struck and he and his business partner pivoted their bar to become a specialist off-licence and online store. He is opening a restaurant in late 2021. Husband to Lucy, Dad to Lily and Rupert the cockapoo.

Sam owns the same businesses as Rob, the two partners opened their first business The Keep in 2016. Since working in a pub at the age of 16, Sam has always wanted to be involved in the hospitality industry. Although studying film at university, the job at the local pub remained and played a huge part in his future career. Aside from work, Sam loves getting out and playing football and cricket, and going out for food and drinks with his partner Hollie and cockapoo Miller, named after gin funnily enough.

PJ Hough is executive vice president and chief product officer for Citrix and is responsible for providing direction for the company’s current and future technology direction. As the evangelist in chief he works closely in elevating relationships with key technology partners, while advancing our mission and product vision with customers and channel partners alike.
Hough brings more than 25 years of industry experience to Citrix, most recently serving as the CVP of Developer division at Microsoft leading the evolution of the Visual Studio product portfolio to fully modern engineering practices, helping to increase revenue and focus on data-driven decision making. Prior to that, he spent over 17 years in the Microsoft Office Division, driving vision and execution for the program management of the entire Office suite culminating with introduction of Office365.
Hough earned a bachelor’s degree in computer applications with honors from the National Institute for Higher Education in Dublin, and a master’s degree in computer applications with 1st Class honors from Dublin City University. He holds 11 patents.

Michael Wyatt has been at Google for almost 6 years. After successfully driving Android into the Enterprise, he moved on to the head up the drive into the workplace for ChromeOS. With 30+ years of experience in IT Sales and Marketing, he has successfully brought new, and grown existing technologies from start-ups and major IT vendors such as Ingram Micro, Intellisync, Radialpoint,Spinvox, Avaya, Microsoft and Nokia. His experience spans Cloud Solutions, PC’s, Networking, Software, Apps, Mobile Devices and MiddleWare. He has successfully founded and sold 2 IT start-up companies and regularly delivers keynote presentations and participates in panel discussions across EMEA. He now runs the go to market for Chrome Enterprise across EMEA. He is also a Google Artist in Residence.

Mark Plettenberg is Sr. Product Manager at Login VSI. Operating in the center between Sales, Product Development, Marketing and last but not least: Research. Due to this research, Mark is regularly invited to speak at leading industry events such as E2EVC, VMworld, Citrix Synergy and share his vision on End User Computing, User Experience, and Performance. Mark is a Citrix CTP, VMware vExpert and Microsoft MVP and co-author of the yearly ‘VDI Like A Pro EUC State of the Union’, the biggest community driven market research in EUC.

Kees Baggerman is a Technical Director for the Performance and Solutions Engineering R&D team at Nutanix Inc. In his role, Kees leads a team that develops methods for successfully implementing applications on the Nutanix platform. In addition, he also delivers customer projects, including defining architectural, business, and technical requirements, creating designs, and implementing the Nutanix solution.