In our featured partner series of Citrix Ready podcasts, we explore the technology integrations that Citrix has with its partners. In this series, I invite guests from Citrix and their partners to spend some time with me to share how they are solving real-world problems for businesses. Not on their own but by working together. In this episode of the Citrix Ready Podcast series, I explore how Citrix and IGEL Technology are working together to solve real-world problems for businesses. IGEL delivers powerful unified endpoint management (UEM) software that is revolutionary in its simplicity and purpose-built for the enterprise. The company’s world-leading products, including the IGEL Universal Management Suite™, IGEL OS™-powered thin and zero clients, and all-in-one thin client solutions, deliver a smart and secure endpoint management experience that shifts granular control of thin and zero client devices from the end-user to IT. Guests Sagnik Datta is a product leader working for Citrix as a Technical Marketing Manager driving partner route-to-market strategies. With 8+ years in the hi-tech industry, Sagnik led several technical programs to increase the adoption of Citrix products, solutions, and services in horizontal and vertical industries. Sagnik holds a bachelor’s degree from BITS Pilani and is passionate about technology, spending initial years as a quality assurance engineer, and eventually specializing himself to drive various outbound product managerial and alliance business development functions. Jim Airdo Vice President of Strategic Alliances at IGEL Technology Jim Airdo oversees the fast-growing global ISV partner ecosystem for IGEL driving increased confidence for customers using multiple hardware and software solutions to access workspaces in the cloud via the Next-Gen OS from IGEL. Airdo’s longstanding business philosophy has always included a heavy focus on going to market with partners; thus his “Partner Led” commitment has led to strong, enduring, trusting relationships with worldwide distributors, global systems integrators, and value-added resellers. Airdo brings over 25 years of technology experience to IGEL and has a wide range of industry experience across workspace management, EUC, virtualization, and cloud computing. Prior to joining IGEL, Airdo held executive-level sales and business development leadership roles for innovative software technology companies such as FSLogix, Microsoft, AppSense, BMC Software, and he also played a seminal role in the early development of Citrix Systems in building their enviable systems engineering team. Jim resides in South Florida with his family, where he plays hockey, eats tacos, and serves on the board of Live the Life South Florida and Lauderdale Lead.