Microsoft Vet Kirill Tatarinov Joins Citrix as President, CEO; Robert Calderoni Comments

Kirill Tatarinov, formerly executive vice president of Microsoft™s (Nasdaq: MSFT) business solutions division, has joined Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS) as president and CEO.

Tatarinov will also join the Citrix board and succeed interim President and CEO Robert Calderoni, who will continue his role as executive chairman of the board, Citrix said Wednesday.

“Following a thorough review of candidates, the board determined that Kirill’s strong product management background and extensive technology leadership experience make him the right person to oversee Citrix’s innovation and growth strategy, ” said Calderoni.

Tatarinov was most recently responsible for Microsoft business solutions division’s cloud and global partner ecosystem.

He joined Microsoft as corporate VP of the management and solutions division after his work as chief technology officer at BMC (Nasdaq: BMC).

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