Mark B. Templeton
CEO
Citrix Systems, Inc.

Mark B. Templeton, 55, is President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director for Citrix Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ:CTXS), a $1.4 billion leader in application delivery infrastructure operating in over 100 countries.
Mr. Templeton joined Citrix as Vice President of Marketing in 1995, when Citrix had $15 million in revenue and went public. He has served as President of Citrix since January 1998 and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2001 to the present.

Under Templeton’s leadership, Citrix has become one of the world’s top technology companies. In the 1990s, he was responsible for Citrix’s marketing strategy in server-based computing, a strategy based on the company’s ground-breaking application virtualization technology, helping the company to achieve market leadership with approximately 80 percent market share.

Over the past few years, Templeton has led the evolution of Citrix from a company with a single product, customer segment, and go-to-market path to a global powerhouse with multiple products, business models, customer segments, and go-to-market channels. In that time, Citrix has also grown to more than 4,600 employees who help hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide – including the world’s largest Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune 500 enterprises, and small businesses and prosumers worldwide. In the process, Citrix revenues have grown from $527 million in 2002 to $1.6 billion in 2008.

Templeton holds a BA in product design from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.

Templeton is a passionate participant in many community and charitable organizations, and has received numerous leadership awards including the AeA Abacus Award for Outstanding High-Tech Executive, “Businessperson of the Year” (EVIE Award), the Excalibur Award and others. Templeton is a sought after public speaker on trends and future of technology as well as the impact of education and curriculum on the technology industry. He speaks frequently at industry events, think tanks, and Citrix partner conferences including Microsoft, IBM, HP, SAP, CSC and others.