VMware, today announced that Sanjay Deshmukh will join the company as Head of End User Computing Business, Asia Pacific Japan. The IT veteran will be responsible for VMware’s end-user computing (EUC) business throughout markets in the company’s Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
Deshmukh joines VMware from Citrix Systems India, where he was Area Vice President, Indian Subcontinent for more than four years. Reporting to Sanjay Mirchandani, VMware’s Senior Vice President and General Manager for the APJ region, Deshmukh will take up his new post on May 12 and will be based in Singapore.
Before joining Citrix, he served SAP India as Vice President, Business User and Platform Group, after working as Country Manager for Business Objects Software India. During his 21-year career, he has built successful businesses in the areas of mobility, virtualisation and analytics. Deshmukh holds an MBA in Marketing from the Institute of Technology and Management, Mumbai.
Speaking about the appointment, Mirchandani said, “We are making this appointment at a very important stage of our development in end-user computing. Sanjay’s experience and expertise will help us build on the establishment of our EUC portfolio across Asia Pacific as the solution of choice for enterprises in the mobile cloud era.”
He added further, “VMware’s EUC capability is the envy of our industry and offers the best solution in terms of empowering employees to access enterprise applications and data on any device from any location, securely and cost-effectively.”
According to the release, VMware’s EUC strategy was reinforced earlier this month when the company launched the a comprehensive desktop solution, VMware Horizon 6 — that would enable customers to transform their applications and desktops for the mobile cloud era — extending access to employees on any device, anywhere, simply, securely and cost-effectively. In late February, VMware had acquired AirWatch, a leader in enterprise mobile management and security solutions covering laptops, peripherals and wearables.
