Peter Levine
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Who is Peter Levine?
Peter Levine is senior vice president and general manager of the
Virtualization and Management Division for Citrix. He is responsible
for the division’s revenue attainment, product management, business
development and strategic direction.
Levine joined Citrix in 2007 through the $500M acquisition of
XenSource, the leading provider of enterprise-class virtualization
solutions based on the open source Xen® hypervisor, where he served as
chief executive officer. Under Levine’s leadership, XenSource
introduced the XenServer product family including the OEM edition,
signed strategic business agreements with such companies as Microsoft
and Symantec, and quickly acquired more than 1,000 enterprise customers
worldwide.
Prior to XenSource, he was a managing director at the Mayfield Fund,
where he spent three years investing in a variety of software companies
including Mendocino Software, Centrify, Zenprise, TrueDemand, OuterBay
(acquired by HP), and Actona, (acquired by Cisco). Before joining
Mayfield, Peter was an early employee of VERITAS Software and during
his 11-year tenure with the company, helped to grow the organization
from no revenue to over $1.5B and twenty employees to over 6,000. When
he left VERITAS in 2001, Peter served as the executive vice president
for Strategic and Platform Operations. Peter had responsibility for
worldwide marketing, OEM sales, business development (MA, venture
fund), and several new product and platform development groups. Prior
to VERITAS, Peter was a software engineer at MIT’s Project Athena,
where he worked on a variety of distributed computing projects.
Peter holds a BS in engineering from Boston University and attended the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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- United States of America
- Employment
- President and CEO, XenSource
- Senior Vice President and GM, Virtualization and Management Division, Citrix Systems
- Andreessen Horowitz
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on July 23, 2013
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