A chat with Shawn Bass

We are back again this time with special guest co-hosts Sean Massey and Stephen Wagner joining Jarian Gibson to talk with Shawn Bass. In this podcast we talked about what Shawn has been up to in between roles, his career, his new role as VP & CTO at Cloud Software Group in the Citrix Business Unit, the EUC landscape, and community.

In this podcast we had the pleasure of talking with Shawn about:

  • Shawn’s impressive career and coming full circle joining the Citrix Business Unit at Cloud Software Group.
  • What Shawn has been up to between VMware and Citrix.
  • His role and getting up to speed as VP & CTO of the Citrix Business Unit at Cloud Software Group.
  • His learnings from previous roles that he can bring to his new role at Cloud Software Group.
  • His thoughts on Citrix direction/pivot from cloud first messaging along with messaging and packaging in general.
  • Thoughts on the EUC space and related spaces with all the change and emerging vendors in the space.
  • Where Shawn sees the EUC space going as a whole and related offerings.
  • Shawn’s thoughts on the current state of the EUC community, any plans for the community at Citrix, where he would like to see the community go, and thoughts on the general community.
  • Shawn’s advice for those new to the EUC community.
  • What interesting technology or non technology Shawn is interested in/looking at.

Thanks to Sean and Stephen on being our special guest co-hosts! Congrats to Shawn on his new role at Cloud Software Group in the Citrix Business Unit!