InstallFree today announced that long time Application and Desktop Virtualization veterans Rashied Akrum and Carina Rozendaal will join InstallFree as the Vice President EMEA and Senior Director of Sales & Marketing EMEA respectively.
Both Akrum and Rozendaal bring a tremendous amount of experience to InstallFree, having previously worked at Microsoft through the acquisition of Softricity in July 2006. Prior to the acquisition, they established and ran the EMEA Headquarters for Softricity for 4 years and were instrumental in creating the Application and Desktop Virtualization market in EMEA while developing a strong channel presence.
Akrum has over 21 years experience in IT leadership roles and has been successful in building European channels for new emerging IT technologies. He has extensive experience in sales, marketing, technical and management positions in software infrastructure and virtualization technologies including Softricity, Citrix, Terminal Server and MS Virtualization.
Rozendaal is a long time software virtualization pioneer having worked at Microsoft and established the EMEA market for Softricity with Akrum. She has extensive experience in the areas of sales, business development and marketing within infrastructure and virtualization technologies like Softricity, Citrix and Terminal Server. Rozendaal also brings her experience in channels in emerging technologies across Europe, Middle East & Africa with companies like CDG Europe, ASG Europe and Racal-Datacom.
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