Centrix Software today announced the appointment of Jane Rimmer and Mark Stradling as non-executive directors with immediate effect. Jane and Mark bring a wealth of management and industry experience to Centrix Software both having held senior roles at two of the industry's largest virtualization companies, Citrix Systems and VMware. Jane and Mark join Centrix Software's management team in an advisory role as the company scales for growth, broadening its sales capabilities and routes to market.

The appointments follow the launch of Centrix Software in November 2008 and the commercial release of Centrix WorkSpace, an application aggregation and publishing platform for enterprise computing environments. WorkSpace is being used by organizations to enhance the way IT services and applications are managed and presented to technology consumers. Centrix WorkSpace removes the complexity of managing and publishing services from different technology systems and makes IT services more consumable for the end-user.

Jane Rimmer Jane Rimmer is a seasoned marketing professional with over 20 years' industry experience. Jane has held Marketing Director positions both at VMware and Citrix Systems, and was responsible for developing and executing go-to-market strategies as the companies launched and experienced rapid growth across EMEA. She is well known in the virtualization industry and has spoken at many industry events including the Gartner Symposiums. Jane has previously held senior marketing roles at Sun Microsystems and Hayes Microcomputer Products. More recently, she specializes in helping software start-ups enter the EMEA market place and has advised companies such as ScriptLogic, Vizioncore and Netuitive on their EMEA go-to-market strategies.

Mark Stradling Mark Stradling has more than 18 years of experience in the high tech industry and was instrumental in the development of two of the industry's leading virtualization companies, VMware and Citrix Systems, in the EMEA region. Mark was Vice President at VMware from 2003 to 2008, establishing the company's EMEA operations and achieving growth of $750m per annum within four years. In this role he was responsible for VMware's EMEA channel strategies, sales, marketing and pre/post-sales operations. Prior to joining VMware, Mark was Vice President at Citrix Systems, where he developed the company's Northern EMEA sales, channel, pre-sales engineering and field marketing activities. Mark is highly regarded in the virtualization industry and is extremely well respected in the EMEA channel community.