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DigitalOcean Hires Former Citrix CEO Mark Templeton to Lead Its Global Cloud Business Focused at Developers

📅 July 11, 2018 - Global cloud hosting services provider DigitalOcean (digitalocean.com ), a company focused at developers and their teams has hired Mark Templeton as chief executive officer (CEO), effective July 1. Templeton is the former president and CEO of Citrix Systems and will also join DigitalOcean's board of directors.

As the former president and CEO of Citrix Systems, Templeton helped grow the business from a $15 million organization with one product, one customer segment, and one go-to-market path, to a global industry leader with more than 100 million users and annual revenue of over $3 billion.

"When we first founded DigitalOcean, we did so with a single focus: to make the lives of developers [...][... Check source for end of article ...]

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