Robert Ruppel

Robert comes to Actian following his tenure leading a sales organization at SUSE. SUSE provides infrastructure for business critical linux, kubernetes cluster management and container security. Prior to that, he spent several years running all operations for a VAR consulting company, Centrinet, and leading a customer-facing team in IT financial management solutions at Flexera. Before 2018, Robert spent 10 years holding various leadership roles at Citrix Systems where he led teams in both networking and virtualization practices. Before his tenure at Citrix, he held increasing levels of leadership at NOAD Americas, Business Objects, Ciber, Financial Dynamics, Metro Information Systems, PepsiCo and the US Army.

Robert holds an MBA in Management and Marketing from the University of Dayton and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Bowling Green State University. His combined experience in information technology covers the areas of business development, strategy, sales, process and project management, SaaS applications, business intelligence, analytics, data warehousing, infrastructure, networking, multi-cloud orchestration, security and virtualization. His overall tenure in the technology field extends for more than 29 years.