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Garry Olah

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Hi, I'm Garry Olah. Welcome to my profile!

Garry Olah's Bio:

Garry Olah's Experience:

• Vice President, Business Development at Citrix Systems, Inc.

  July 1999 - June 2011

  Garry Olah was the vice president of business development, managing the Microsoft and Strategic Alliance teams for Citrix Systems. In this role, Olah managed global alliances coordinating executive, field, product group and corporate business strategies and engagements. During his 12 year tenure, Citrix received a host of industry accolades which included 5 times being named Microsoft's Global ISV Partner of the Year, Information Worker Deployment Partner of the Year and Citizenship Partner of the Year, Citrix is the global leader and most trusted name in desktop and application delivery infrastructure. More than 300k organizations around the world use Citrix include all of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals. Citrix annual revenues in 2010 were $1.8 billion with offices in 22 countries, and >6,800 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries.

• Sr. Program Director at BMC Software

  January 1995 - July 1999

  Before joining Citrix in 1999, Olah amassed more than 13 years' experience in enterprise software sales and marketing management. Olah was Senior Program Director for BMC Software where he was hired to develop and execute the ISV strategies and programs for PATROL, the company's award winning application management platform and most successful distributed systems product. Throughout his 5 years at BMC, PATROL won numerous awards including the prestigious "Software Magazine Editor's Choice Award" for 1998.

• Director of Marketing and New Product Development at Influence Online Systems

  February 1993 - December 1994

  Before joining BMC Software, Olah was the Director of Marketing and New Product Development at an development tools company for online services, Influence Online Systems, where he successfully initiated product launches for this online systems start-up and maximized the company's presence in the marketplace through product launches, sales training, and direct marketing and press/analyst activities.

• General Manager at Hola Technologies

  October 1991 - January 1993

  Internet connectivity and consulting firm

• Managing Director at Fiorucci

  August 1987 - September 1991

  Retail Clothing Manufacturer and Franchises

• Sales at IMP Boats

  January 1985 - July 1987

  Pleasure Boating manufacturer

• Various Positions at Pauluhn Electric Mfg. Co., Inc.

  1977 - December 1984

  Marine & Petrochemical lighting and electrical manufacturer

• Vice President, Business Development at Apprenda Inc.

  August 2012

  Managing the chess board @ Apprenda. Building strategic relationships with the future of IT, including strong industry alliances and go-to-markets with all major players in cloud and enterprise software including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, NetApp, Citrix, CA, F5, etal... Apprenda was founded by a team of software engineers frustrated with reinventing the wheel after working on a series of software development projects within enterprise IT that could have benefitted from a shared platform and a low friction model for deployment and management tasks. They realized that the bulk of their effort was focused on complex tasks un-related to the actual application's functionality or business value, but absolutely critical to the application's ability to scale and its overall manageability. The team realized that there was little benefit in building the same systems architecture for each application, and that the standard "wait 90 days until we get the infrastructure ready for the app" approach could not be part of the future of enterprise IT. Cloud, and more specifically PaaS, seemed promising because it could solve these problems by providing "out of the box" services to applications, and could be consumed in a "self-service" way by developers.

• Managing Director at vEdify, LLC

  January 2011

  Founded vEdify, in 2011 to work with enterprise software companies in various stages of their business lifecycle on business development strategy and execution. Focused on the Microsoft and Citrix business ecosystem and coordinating the objectives of venture with small, mid and large cap businesses.

Garry Olah's Education:

• University of Houston

  1979 – 1984
  BS

• Southwest Texas State University

  1979 – 1982
  Bachelor's degree
  Concentration: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services