Simon Crosby: Citrix CTO, towards a new adventure
Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix Data Center and Cloud division, announced on the Citrix blog that he wants to leave the company to start a new professional adventure in a Cloud startup focused on virtualization and security, Bromium.
Simon Crosby co-founder of XenSource, acquired 4 years ago by Citrix, together with Ian Pratt join Gaurav Banga (creator of Phoenix Hyperspace), to found Bromium.
Bromium has already acquired 3 investors, Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The board, in addition to having people from the Venture Capital mentioned, will also be composed of George Kurtz, Worldwide CTO, EVP of McAfee.
The investment received is valued at $9.2 million.
Simon and Ian declare that they do not abandon the support and promotion of open projects: xen.org, OpenStack.org, OpenVSwitch.org, Open Networking Foundation and others.
Many personal wishes to Simon, known since the time of XenSource, and with whom we exchanged occasional and instructive communications.
