Brian Ducharme of VMBlog.com speaks with Ahmed Datoo about the mobile platform that enables Project Avalon.

Ahmed Datoo, Vice President, Product Marketing, Mobile Platforms Group

Ahmed Datoo heads product marketing for the Mobile Platforms group, leading the mobility go-to-market strategy for Citrix. He joined Citrix with the acquisition of Zenprise, where he was chief marketing officer. Prior to Zenprise, Datoo was global director of product development at EDS. In this role, he built and launched several workflow automation and monitoring automation modules that generated multi-million dollar savings globally. Previously, Datoo was a member of Loudcloud's product management team where he focused on monitoring, storage and performance networking products, and a brand manager at Yahoo! where he co-developed the print and radio promotions for Yahoo! Shopping.

Datoo began his career as a strategy consultant at Accenture where he created high-tech product development strategies for telcos, media conglomerates and hardware manufacturers. His experience in the technology industry spans strategic planning, brand marketing, software engineering and product management.

Datoo holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and an MBA, from Stanford University.