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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, Levine 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 more than $1.5B, and from 20 employees to more than 6,000. By the time he left VERITAS in 2001, Levine was executive vice president for Strategic and Platform Operations. responsible for worldwide marketing, OEM sales, business development (M&A, venture fund), and several new product and platform development groups. Prior to VERITAS,he was a software engineer at MIT s Project Athena, where he worked on a variety of distributed computing projects. Levine holds a BS in engineering from Boston University and attended the Sloan School of Management at MIT. | 