Martin Durssmaa
CTO Chair and VP of Advanced Products, Citrix |
Martin Duursma is the CTO Office Chair for Citrix Systems, Inc. & Vice President of the Citrix Advanced Products Group. In this dual capacity, Martin is tasked with day to day running of the CTO Office, which is responsible for educating and evangelizing technology directions, trends and standards within Citrix as well as cross group technology governance.
In his role as VP Advanced Products, Martin is chartered with conceiving and producing creative products, components and technologies crucial to the company's success. His global responsibilities include development groups located in Cambridge, UK, Redmond, USA, and Sydney, Australia which pioneer and review new technologies with a two to three-year horizon. Ultimately these technologies become part of the Citrix product portfolio. Additionally the group is responsible for stimulating innovation inside Citrix via running an internal ideation process.
Prior to his current position, Martin was Vice President of Product Development at Citrix Systems, Inc, in a division focused on products that utilise Citrix’s Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) technology. Martin also had the additional responsibility of day-to-day management of Citrix’s Sydney and Tokyo research and development groups.
Martin Duursma has more than 25 years experience in research and development of operating systems and multi-user technologies. Prior to joining Citrix, he was Director of Research and Development for Datapac Australasia, a position he held for ten years. Whilst at Datapac, he was responsible for managing the development of the System Manager operating system that has been widely adopted in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to the acquisition of Datapac by Citrix Systems Inc., Martin was instrumental in the expansion of technologies that enhance the Citrix product line.
Martin Duursma holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and is a member of the IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). |
