Sherif Seddik
Senior Vice President EMEA
Citrix
Senior Vice President EMEA
As the Sr Vice President and Managing Director of Citrix in Europe, Middle, East and Africa, Sherif is responsible for all Citrix’s sales and services across all customer segments in this geography. Sherif joined Citrix in November 2015.
Prior to joining Citrix Sherif was the General Manager of the Western Europe Enterprise and Partner Group at Microsoft from 2010 to 2015, Sherif was responsible for sales of software, devices, and online services to Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers and partners, in a region that spans twelve western European markets.
Sherif joined Microsoft in 2002 as Regional Director of the Enterprise and Partner Group for Middle East and Africa. In that capacity, Sherif was responsible for driving Microsoft’s Enterprise business in one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing and most dynamic markets.
In 2005, Sherif was promoted to the role of General Manager for Sales, Marketing and Services for Middle East and Africa, and in 2007 became the Regional General Manager for Microsoft North Africa, East Mediterranean and Pakistan. In this role, Sherif was responsible for Microsoft’s end-to-end business across this region comprising 14 countries.
Across 31 years of international sales, marketing and management experience in the IT industry, Sherif has lived and worked in eight countries on three continents. Among others, his prior sales leadership roles included worldwide responsibility for retail ATM solutions at NCR Corporation.
Originally from Egypt, Sherif holds a B. Sc. in Communications and Electrical Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo. Based in Zürich, Switzerland, Sherif’s passions include music, diving, cuisine, skiing, and photography.
Eric Kline
Vice President EMEA Partner Sales
Citrix
Vice President EMEA Partner Sales
Eric has nearly 20 years of Citrix and industry experience leading services, sales, and channel teams in both the US and EMEA. As US native, Eric has lived in Europe for the past 7 years and currently resides in Amsterdam where he was most recently the AVP of Western & Southern Europe before taking his current role VP of Partner channels in EMEA.
Christian Reilly
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Citrix
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
In his role, Christian engages our global customer and partner base to articulate the Citrix vision; working with them to better understand industry & business direction and the evolving markets in which we play, feeding that back into the core business to influence future overall product strategy & direction.
Previously, Christian held the role of Vice President & Chief Technology Officer for the Workspace Services Business Unit at Citrix, responsible for driving technology strategy & direction. The Workspace Services Business comprised many of the core products and technologies, including XenApp, XenDesktop, XenMobile, XenServer and Citrix Cloud. The Workspace Services Business Unit was restructured in early 2017 to allow for a streamlining of the overall Product & Engineering functions.
Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held several key IT leadership positions over a 19-year career at US-based Engineering & Construction firm Bechtel, where he was responsible for the strategic planning, infrastructure & enterprise architecture and global innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. Christian led the team that identified strategic areas of new and emerging technology development and advised on sustainable innovations that would make the biggest impacts to Bechtel’s $35bn global business.
Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied Business & Computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.