Peter Levine

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.