VIRTUAL GPU COMMUNITY ADVISOR PROGRAM

CTO

Frank is the Americas CTO at ControlUp and has over 20 years of experience in the EUC industry having worked for Citrix, Cisco, and VMware. His portfolio includes technical marketing, partner alliances, sales enablement, public speaking, performance studies, and architecting solutions with tier-1 companies. 

Working at various Fortune 500 companies his career began as a Desktop Support Engineer and progressed to a Network Support Tech, Server Admin, Citrix Admin, SE, TME, and Technical Director at Citrix. Frank is referred to as a thought-leader, well respected in the community and customer base. Highlights of his accomplishments include EUC performance testing, user experience benchmarking, and technical content creation. He helped launch XenDesktop from a beta release to over a billion-dollar market and built the set of joint solutions that defined the Citrix-Cisco partnership.

Senior Pre-sales engineer

With over 20 years of experience of the VDI/Remote Apps and Desktops niche, I live by the mantra of providing High End User Experience. My hart lies in advanced graphics. My current employment is at IGEL Technology, as a Senior Presales Engineer, Technology Evangelist and Manager Presales Engineering Northern Europe. I’m based in Sweden. One of my responsibilities at IGEL Technology is designing and building demos of high-end multimedia in the world of Remote graphics. My primary focus is to provide extreme user experiences in the world of server-based computing. Recent projects have been about gaming, 3D modeling, CAD and Virtual Reality in the world of IGEL OS, Remote Sessions powered by Nvidia. I’m very active in the IGEL Community discussing technologies and providing hints on how to solve issues. I see a great benefit of communities, as this is a good way to spread knowledge, get input from participants using products you love working with, and finally, a good way to increase your global personal network. On the certification side I haven’t been very active lately, but my history contains a bunch of MCSE and CCE certifications.

Senior Systems Engineer

Jan Hendrik Meier is an Expert for Infrastructure- and Virtualisation-Solutions with a focus on SBC/VDI environments. He has a background of more than 15 years experiences with Microsoft- and Citrix-Products. Thus he has an excellent stock of knowledge in this area and combines this with a deep understanding of the technical connections. During the time he has deepened his knowledge in this area and extended it to other Citrix Products like Provisioning Server and NetScaler. Furthermore he started using graphics acceleration in SBC/VDI-Environment since the first beta release of NVIDIA GRID. In the last years he published several books and articles about Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop and NVIDIA Grid.

EUC Architect/Tech Marketing

Johan van Amersfoort is an EUC Architect working for ITQ Consultancy. He is the author of the VDI Design Guide, a vExpert since 2015, a VMware End-User Computing Champion since 2016 and the first VMware Certified Design Expert on Desktop and Mobility (VCDX-DTM) in the Benelux. He is specialized in VDI, Graphical Acceleration, and Application Delivery and a regular speaker on events like VMUGs, UserCons, and VMworld and one of the founders of VMware EUC TechCon.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Kanishk Sethi a VMware vExpert 2016/2017/2018, VMware vExpert Cloud, NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor is a technology Geek and an engineering graduate with overall experience of more than nine years working with Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud, Business Continuity, Backup and Disaster Recovery. As an Independent Virtualization Consultant Kanishk Sethi provides professional services like Consulting, IT-strategy, architectural design, implementation and troubleshooting for VMware, NVIDIA. He is also a VMware Certified Instructor and conducts training for various technologies including (Data Center Virtualization, Cloud Management and Automation,Virtual Desktop Infrastructure,Backup and Disaster Recovery) for clients all over the world. Kanishk Sethi hold's various certifications including VCAP6-DCV Design, VCAP6-DCV Deploy, VCIX6-DCV, VCP5-DCV ,VCP6-DCV, VCP6.5-DCV, VCP6-CMA, VCP6-DTM. You can learn more about Kanishk Sethi at www.kanishksethi.in

Technical Director

Kees Baggerman is a technical director leading a team of highly skilled architects for EUC, Databases and Global 2000 focused areas. Kees is a Citrix Certified Integration Architect, Microsoft Certified IT Professional, RES Certified Professional and RES Certified Trainer and has driven numerous Microsoft and Citrix, and RES infrastructures functional/technical designs, migrations, implementations engagements over the years. Active in the Citrix and virtualization community, Kees has been named RES RSVP for 8 years straight including being named MVP in 2011 and was first recognized as a VMware vExpert in 2013 and currently still holds the title. He is co-founder and member of the Board of the Dutch Citrix User Group and maintains a widely read blog.

Workspace Architect

Magnar is a Workspace Architect, blogger, speaker, and community tool developer with 18+ years experience in End User Computing. Based in Bergen, Norway, he has worked with Citrix, Microsoft, and VMWare products since 1999 and with NVIDIA products since 2012. Magnar has a passion for technology, computer visualization, and virtual reality, as well as experience in 3D modeling, graphic manipulation, and video effects. He has assessed, designed, implemented, and supported many virtual graphics solutions based on NVIDIA technology for small to large companies in the oil and gas industry in Norway. Magnar shares his knowledge, tools and experience on his blog, www.virtualexperience.no, www.gpusizer.com, www.teamrge.com, and speaks at numerous industry conferences including Citrix Synergy, Briforum(GeekOut365), Citrix User Group and TeamRGE events.

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Sr. System consultant, designing, implementing and optimizing Citrix environments

As a Virtualization-enthusiast, Rasmus has more than 15 years of experience with operating, implementing and optimizing Citrix virtualization environments. He has been working enthusiastically with GPU’s since 2013 on the evolving graphics virtualization technologies and how to leverage these with the single goal of providing the best user experience possible. These interests have led to presenting sessions at international events like Nvidia’s GTC Europe but also at community driven events like E2EVC and the German-speaking Citrix User Group, besides national, Danish, Conecto TechTalks as an employee and Sr. System consultant of Conecto. His primary motivation is the optimization: How to design and configure an optimal solution for the end users. He is certified in all relevant Citrix products as well as a member of the independent group TeamRGE (Team Remote Graphics Experts) group. A group dedicated to examine and test graphics remoting technologies. He was also among the founding members of the NGCA – Nvidia GRID Community Advisors.

Sr. Technologist

Ruben Spruijt is Sr. Technologist, former CTO at Frame and a well-regarded author, speaker, market analyst, technologist. An all-around geek. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor, VMware vExpert and was in the Citrix CTP program from 2008-2017.

Ruben (co)founded several independent industry bodies such as Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC), Team Remote Graphics Experts (TeamRGE), WhatMatrix, AppVirtGURU wrote and co-authoring multiple disruptive research papers. 

Consultant

Rody Kossen is an IT Consultant, his primary focus is around Workspace. Delivered by technologies from Citrix, NVIDIA and Ivanti ( formally RES Software ). Rody was one of the first picking up the technology from NVIDIA to virtualize the 3D Graphics with GRID. With his previous job he gained knowledge about optimizing the User Experience over long-haul WAN connections. He is also certified and experienced in Citrix SD-WAN to further improve the User Experience.

Rody is part of a community Team RGE (Remote Graphics Experts), RDAnalyzer and speaks on events like NVIDIA GTC.

Sr. Sales Engineer

Ronald Grass a is Sr. Sales/Systems Engineer at Citrix Systems in Germany. He support customers, Citrix Partners, SIs ( HP, Cisco, DELL etc) and Technology Partners (i.e. NVIDIA) in promoting and deploying joint solutions (NVIDA vGPU with Citrix HDX-3D Pro). As a NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor and Subject Matter Expert for High Definition User Experience (HDX™) technologies he has deep knowledge in the NVIDIA vGPU architecture and Citrix protocol technology (i.e. codecs, protocols ) and optimization of these. Since the support of passthrough and hardware based GPU virtualization technologies (vGPU / GVT-g / MxGPU) in Xenserver he focused on virtualization and central delivery of graphics-intensive workloads. With his experience he is able to constantly give feedback to Citrix and NVIDIA product management to improve the quality and performance of NVIDIA vGPU and HDX-3D Pro.

CEO

Roy Textor has worked since 1997 in virtualization environments and was employed at various Citrix partners. As the owner/CEO of Textor IT in Germany, he is responsible for many GPU virtualization projects at key accounts. Roy is known for his TechTalk sessions, as well as a speaker at various virtualization and cloud focused conferences and workshops. In addition, he manages and hosts the German-speaking Cloud User Group / DCUG and has been responsible for hosting dozens of free user group meetings about GRID, HDX, and related technologies in numerous cities in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He is a NGCA founding member.

Principal Sales Engineer

EUC computing expert transitioning to Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and data analytics with extensive experience in the oversight, planning, design and delivery of diverse technical applications and systems. Combined hands on sales and systems engineering experience with demonstrated competencies in oversee the complete sales cycle, including account management, solutions development, design, deployment and user training. Dedicated and actively involved in enhancing the user experience through the development and delivery of effective training materials for sales engineers, clients, partners and user groups. Recognized for advanced leadership skills with strengths in training, mentoring and ongoing development.

Staff Cloud Solutions Architect

Sean is a Staff Cloud Solutions Architect with VMware, where he focuses on helping VMware’s cloud solutions partners deliver end-user computing solutions to their customers. He has 10 years of experience in IT and blogs at thevirtualhorizon.com. Sean is also well known in the virtualization community via his community work in the VMware vExpert and VMware EUC Champion programs, and he is VMware Certified Design Expert #247

Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer

Suresh Thoppay is Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer at NetApp focused on End-User Computing with NetApp HCI, FlexPod and NFLEX systems. Before joining NetApp, He was with DellEMC as Consultant Solutions Architect for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Platform. His skills include Automation, Systems Integration, Backup & Disaster Recovery. He has around 25 years of experience in the industry and held certifications from Novell, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Cisco, EMC, VMware and Amazon.

Team Lead (Infrastructure Services)

Originally an astronomer by vocation and one of the early users of CCD technology for imaging space objects, major interests have long included image processing and data analysis along with programming and systems and application administration. Since 1994, a full-time employee in the IT department of Northern Arizona University (30k students, 4.5k faculty/staff) primarily involved in the academic area, and a Team Lead / Senior Programmer since 1998 as well as adjunct faculty in astronomy since 1988. Interests include computer security, any kind of student services (lab technology, distance education, authentication/authorization, providing applications as services, etc.), assisting faculty with special Web hosting projects (in particular involving LAMP), open source applications, server/desktop virtualization (since 2004), ubiquitous computing, storage technologies, IoT, Raspberry Pis and GPU/vGPU technologies. He has been working on multiple XenServer/XenDesktop/XenApp/NetScaler configurations since 2009. Tobias holds a PhD in astronomy from the University of Vienna, Austria, as well as CCA certification in XenServer 6. He can be encountered regularly on the Citrix Discussion Forum and lurks as well on LinkedIn and Twitter. He has been a member of CUGC since 2015, for which he also serves in the capacity of a Steering Committee member and Vice President and chairs the Content Working Group. He received the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) award in 2016 through the present and was an inaugural member of the NVIDIA vGPU Community Advocate (NGCA) group in 2016 and a member each year since then.

Sr. Advisor, Technical Marketing

Tony, AKA the WonderNerd, is a founding Member of the NVIDIA vFPU Community Advisors (NGCA) program. He is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Dell EMC and is currently working on several converged infrastructure programs with focuses on virtualization. Tony has been virtualized for 14 years and has been working in the EUC/VDI space for the last 9 years. Mainly focusing on the VMware Horizon platform. As part of this focus he has architected and/or deployed EUC offerings for a large array of clients from small organizations to Fortune 100 companies. It’s not unusual to find Tony at industry events where he enjoys presenting on EUC technologies for unusual delivery methods. Of late he has focused on Linux Virtual Desktops and delivering non-graphics workloads with them. If you are interested in finding out more about Tony be sure to visit https://wondernerd.net.

Technology Evangelist/Consultant

Thomas Poppelgaard enjoys Design/Advice/implement Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality solutions how these solutions can be combined with remote graphics. (Oculus Rift/HTC Vive/Hololens/ODG.) Design/Advice/Implement HPC solutions and how these solutions can be combined with remote graphics. Globally, Thomas is a speaker at conferences, webinars, seminars, and roadshows about remote visualization Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and NVIDIA in the World. Thomas is a speaker at NVIDIA GTC US/EMEA, Citrix Synergy, Citrix Summit, BriForum, E2EVC, Citrix User Group in England, Norway, Finland, Holland, Israel and VMUG in Denmark, Doha.