David Henshall
President & CEO, Citrix, Fort Lauderdale
Software company Citrix employs more than 10,000 worldwide, with nearly 2,000 of those in South Florida. During the pandemic, the company started a COVID-19 relief and recovery program to help those in need. “As part of this program, we doubled our match for employee donations to related causes, allocated millions of dollars of additional giving to support our local communities and provided more than 13 million meals to those in need,” Henshall says.
| Education | University of Arizona (BS), Santa Clara University (MBA) |
| Something Surprising | I was a pilot recreationally prior to becoming CEO. |
| Sabbatical Topic | I would use the year to become competent and have working skills at all of the things I love but don’t have time for — golf, languages, French cooking, flying, etc. |
| Reading | Grand Transitions, by Vaclav Smil |