Citrix announced the appointment of Rakesh Narasimhan as group vice president and general manager. In this role, he will drive strategy for the company's market-leading desktop and application virtualization business with responsibility for a broad portfolio of products including Citrix XenDesktop(R) and Citrix XenApp(R). Most recently, he served as president and CEO at InstallFree, a developer of application portability, virtualization and access solutions that delivered Microsoft Office as a subscription-based cloud service to any device.