Journey to the Cloud Confidently With Citrix and Google Cloud

Jeff has been a Solutions Architect with Google Cloud since April 2017 during which time he has helped customers realize their goals on Google Cloud Platform in the areas of workload virtualization, big data, and enterprise migrations. Before joining Google, Jeff held a leadership position on the cloud platform team at a large financial services company after having spent several years as a talent transformation specialist at another public cloud provider. Jeff is based in Los Angeles, California, USA at Google's Playa Vista campus.

Regarded by many as one of the founding fathers of the Citrix community, some consider his "Installation and Tuning Tips for Citrix MetaFrame" work a major contributor to the evolution of the Desktop Virtualization landscape, and credit his work for shaping the careers of many in the industry. He joined Citrix in 1998, working in the field as a solution architect through 2005. He then went on to start and sell a couple consulting practices, forge new ground in 'the cloud' with a pioneering Service Provider, and even spent some time in the enterprise storage space before returning to Citrix in 2016. Rick Dehlinger is currently a Principal Solution Architect at Citrix, focused on Google.

Rich Meesters is an Enterprise Architect with Citrix Consulting Services. Rich has over 30 years of industry experience and focuses on destkop and application virtualization, Citrix Cloud and public cloud infrastructures. Rich is Married with two children and lives in Collingwood, Ontario Canada