Venkatesh Kumar

Venkatesh Kumar (Venky) is the Technical Marketing Lead @ Citrix Ready Team, a team which responds to more than 1500 partner requests a year which includes answering questions on partnering with Citrix, testing, licensing, integration efforts, certification and approval for entrance into the Citrix Ready Partner Program. He is responsible for building smooth and streamlined processes of getting partners integrated with the latest and greatest Citrix technology. Venky has almost 9 years (HP 3.5 and IBM 5.9 years) of diverse experience in IT Industry. He completed his Bachelors of Engineering in MIT (MAHE University), Manipal. He has proven experience of providing technical consultancy and implementing solutions for customers, managing integration of external Individual Software Vendors (ISV), handling escalations, critical projects/deliverables and leading professionals holding diverse roles and responsibilities and from multiple countries. He has solid experience in building teams from the early stages in a project and believes in “Mentoring”. In addition, he has a couple of IP (Intellectual Property) disclosures to his name and is also a recipient of multiple Technical achievement, Quality and Top contributors awards @ both IBM and HP. He is an IBM Certified Solution Architect and IBM Certified Solution Advisor. Lastly, he also holds certifications on Global leadership as part of IBM’s “Emerging Leaders Program”. [LinkedIn]  [Twitter]