Centrix Software provides companies with the information they need to make better decisions about their IT, based on knowing what IT assets a company has in place, how they are being used, and how they could be utilized more efficiently.
Centrix Software is focused on creating solutions that help organizations extract more value from their IT, liberating them from rigid technology infrastructures and enabling them to reap the benefits of developments in Web, virtualizatino and cloud technologies. The company’s products bridge the gap between existing static IT asset management tools and wider application delivery platforms, from traditional physical machines and virtual servers through to web-enabled applications and the cloud.
Based on its Centrix WorkSpace product suite, Centrix Software helps organizations improve strategic technology decision-making, make the introduction of new technologies, such as virtualization, easier and accelerate the adoption of business-critical services by end-users. Companies can modernize their IT infrastructure within a framework that aligns with existing IT governance and security models and that is designed to mitigate the risk associated with new technology introductions.
Privately held, Centrix Software is headquartered in Berkshire, UK and its solutions are available through a network of value-added partners and resellers.
As CEO, Lisa is the co-founder of Centrix Software, and from the beginning of the company, her passion and leadership have become hallmarks of Centrix success. Throughout Lisas career, she has been guided by a belief that business performance depends on making the most effective technology choices and this is embedded in Centrix Softwares product development and company strategy.
Lisas main role at Centrix is leading the company in helping its customers optimize their information and technology to increase productivity and performance. She has authored or co-authored over 25 articles on IT services and business, and is a frequent public speaker.
Jon is the co-founder of Centrix, and as COO heads the companys operational division. He has more than 20 years experience in senior management, and prior to founding the company held a number of operational roles in FTSE 250 companies across retail, financial services and automotive sectors.
Jon has always pushed the limits of operational performance while at the same time creating a mutual respect between management, partners, employees and clients. Prior to joining Centrix, Jon was Managing Director of a start-up automotive services company that successfully grew from 0 to 22m in 2 years before being acquired.
Marina has over 25 years experience running B2B enterprise marketing teams and programmes and has overall responsibility for the company’s marketing including strategy, product, channel, brand and awareness, and lead generation.
Before joining Centrix Software, Marina held a variety of senior marketing roles in companies ranging from VC-backed start-ups such as nlyte Software, established companies such as Touchpaper (acquired by LANDesk in 2005) and global IT organisations. Marina was also Enterprise Segment Marketing Manager at Microsoft UK where she provided strategic and tactical marketing support to drive Microsoft’s corporate business. Most notably, she developed campaigns for the financial services industry team and managed co-marketing plans with Microsoft’s global partners such as Accenture and Cap Gemini.
Paul has over 20 years of product management, marketing and customer support experience in software businesses of all sizes. Pauls recent roles have been in senior management positions for AVG Technologies, Trend Micro and Citrix Systems. Paul has led product teams to create commercially successful award winning products that saw strong customer acceptance by millions of users across customer segments from consumer to large enterprise. His experience spans all stages of the product lifecycle from start-up through mass market adoption to product retirement. Paul has had responsibility over 25 major commercial product releases that have driven many hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues.
Mark has more than 18 years of experience in the high tech industry delivering rapid growth at scale, most recently as Executive Vice President EMEA for VMware. In this role, Mark was responsible for all company operations including channel strategies, sales, marketing, and pre/post-sales engineering across EMEA. Marks drive and determination led to the company going from from the ground up to sales of more than $750m per annum across EMEA in just four years.
Prior to joining VMware, Mark was Vice President of Northern Europe at Citrix Systems where he built the Northern EMEA sales, channel strategies, pre-sales engineering and field marketing organizations. Mark is highly regarded in the virtualization industry and is extremely well respected by channel partners. He has also held various sales management positions with Azlan, Canon and Rank Xerox.
Steve has over 20 years experience in software development, working in a range of private and public sector organizations ranging from those with large, established product portfolios to small start-ups. Steve is passionate about the value and subsequent contribution to customer success that best-in-class software products can bring to any enterprise software company. A keen proponent of the iterative and incremental group of software development methods, Steve has been involved with agile communities and leading experts since the late 90s and was part of the first group of UK companies to adopt eXtreme Programming techniques, working with the likes of Uncle Bob Martin and Michael Feathers.
Director, Engineering at Centrix Software
David has over 20 years customer service & support experience spanning international software and service companies and is passionate about providing service excellence to Centrix Softwares customers and partners. Skilled in managing customer service, support and IT strategy direction and technical operations, David is responsible for the companys global support and service center operations.
Before joining Centrix Software, David held customer service roles in some of the largest global IT organizations including IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. His responsibilities in these companies included building and managing customer and internal technical support service desks, providing technical design, consultancy and support on large Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager projects.
In his spare time, David likes to keep fit and as well as cycling 20 miles to and from the Newbury office, he is a 3rd degree black belt in Tang Sou Dao.