Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, has announced the appointment of Victor Tsao as the area vice president and general manager for the Greater China Region. Victor is responsible for directing and managing business operations in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In this role, he is responsible for leading the sales and marketing teams, driving market awareness of Citrix, and growing the company's revenue and market share.

Reporting to Dennis Rose, vice president of Citrix Systems Inc - Pacific, Tsao will focus on accelerating the growth of Greater China. "With the strength of twenty years of experience leading and growing IT operations across Greater China, Victor is well positioned to lead Citrix's operations as it begins accelerating its growth with a major new phase of investment planned for these markets," said Dennis Rose.

"Citrix is going through an exciting growth phase and I am delighted to be part of the team," said Victor Tsao. "I look forward to contributing to the growth of Citrix and driving its technology and market leadership even further."

Tsao has worked in leading technology organisations including IBM, Dell, i2 and prior to Citrix, he was the Greater China general manager for APC (American Power Conversion Corporation). An industry veteran, he brings with him an extensive track record of success in his 20 year of career as well as an in-depth understanding of the full range of IT business including hardware, software, consulting services and channel management.

Tsao has lived and worked in China for more than 11 years. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan.

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organisations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100 per cent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 per cent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was US$1.4 billion.

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the appointment of Joseph Signorelli to the newly created role of vice president for Data Solutions in Asia Pacific and Japan.

Signorelli will be responsible for driving sales of F5 Acopia Data Solutions across the region. He will be based in Tokyo, Japan and report directly to Christopher P. Lynch, Senior Vice President of Data Solutions for F5 Networks. In this role, Signorelli will support the broader efforts of Song Tang Yih, Vice President of Asia Pacific and Tada Nagasaki, Vice President Country Manager of Japan, and ensure the success of the F5 Acopia Data Solutions product portfolio in these regions.

As businesses continue to consolidate IT resources in order to provide centralised control of application and file services, there is an increasing need to manage data storage assets more efficiently and in a cost-effective manner. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group, enterprises want to address these issues with integrated technology solutions that virtualise applications and IT services. For years, F5 has focused on bridging this gap by providing networking technologies that virtualise web and application servers. F5 Acopia Data Solutions help extend this virtual functionality to the file domain by offering automatic, policy-driven migration, tiering, load balancing, and replication across multi-vendor storage environments.

"By optimising the network storage layer that is entrusted with an organisation's data, F5 is able to help companies make information and applications more easily and securely available to its users. F5 Acopia Data Solutions are a natural and important extension to F5's data center vision, and we see great potential in this segment of the business across the region. Coming into this role, Joe will inherit significant market momentum in Asia Pacific and Japan," said Lynch.

"Customers today are wrestling with escalating acquisition and management costs associated with unstructured data, the largest expense in most IT budgets," said Signorelli. "F5 is in a perfect position to help enterprise customers remove the complexity and cost associated with unstructured data, while providing unprecedented levels of service."

Signorelli brings over 20 years of experience in sales, and has held senior management positions at several leading technology companies. Prior to joining F5, he was with Symantec, Japan where he served as director of Enterprise Sales. Previously Signorelli served as director of Network Storage Sales for EMC Japan and as area sales manager in Rochester, New York for EMC USA.

Signorelli attended the State University of New York where he majored in Computer Science and Economics.

Ms Amanda Scott, General Manager of The Excelsior, Hong Kong is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Doris Ip as Director of Human Resources.

Doris has over 11 years of experience, and joins The Excelsior from Global Beauty International where she was Head of Human Resources and Training. In her new capacity, she will be responsible for all of The Excelsior's HR related issues.

Doris spent 12 years with Shangri-La Hotels starting her internship in Beijing, and moving into Human Resources for five years at the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong. Doris then moved on to the Aberdeen Marina Club as Human Resources and Environmental Management System Manager for six years.

Doris graduated from the University of Hong Kong Polytechnic with a BA (Hons) Degree in Hospitality Management, and also has a Masters Degree in Human Resource Management from Macquarie University. She did her traineeship with Hyatt Regency.

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is the award-winning owner and operator of some of the world' s most prestigious hotels and resorts. Mandarin Oriental now operates, or has under development, over 10,000 rooms in 23 countries with 16 hotels in Asia, 14 in The Americas and nine in Europe and North Africa.