Baskerville brings an in-depth understanding of virtualization and cloud solutions from Citrix, Xen, VMware and Microsoft. He has spent the last seven years providing instrumental sales and leadership to companies, in many cases, positioning those companies for acquisition. He was sales director for Virtual Computer (acquired by Citrix Systems), virtualization sales for Microsoft, VP EMEA Vizioncore (acquired by Quest), sales director for XenSource (acquired by Citrix Systems), business development manager for Citrix Systems and manager, application partner group for Compaq Computer.

“We are excited to bring a hands-on, collaborative leader, like Baskerville, on board because of his proven track record of establishing quality leads and sales across EMEA,” said James Legg, CEO, PHD Virtual Technologies. “We view his appointment as another sign of our commitment to being the leading company in our industry. With extensive experience in cloud storage, virtualization and enterprise applications, he is certain to be a valuable asset to the growing PHD Virtual team.

Baskerville comments, “I am excited to start a new challenge within PHD Virtual and look forward to working with the team to further develop their already extensive channel, customer line up and product and service suite. I am fortunate to be joining such a respected company that prides itself on top quality service.”