Mark B. Templeton is an American businessman. He served as the President and CEO of Citrix Systems, Inc. from 2001 to 2015.

Early life and education

Templeton attended North Carolina State University, where he joined

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fraternity. He has an MBA from the

University of Virginia Darden School of Business The Darden School of Business is the graduate business school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Darden School offers MBA, PhD, and Executive Education programs. The school was founde ...

Career

Templeton joined Citrix in 1995 as vice president of marketing, prior to the company's initial public offering. He was appointed president in 1998 and chief executive officer in 2001. Templeton left Citrix in 2015. By that time, the company's annual revenue had grown to $3.2 billion. In his visit to Citrix SaaS division offices in February 2014, Templeton declared his highest aspiration was to be a moral corporate leader, and he received a standing ovation. Two weeks later the branch cut its workforce by 10%. In 2008, Templeton joined the board of directors of Equifax. He retired from the board in November 2018. On July 1, 2018 Templeton joined

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. () is an American multinational technology company and cloud service provider. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York, USA, with 15 globally distributed data centers worldwide. DigitalOcean provide ...

as CEO replacing co-founder

Ben Uretsky Ben Uretsky is the cofounder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider. In 2003 Uretsky founded his first company ServerStack, a managed hosting provider, with his brother Moisey Uretsky. The company ...

. On May 8, 2019,

announced that Mark Templeton was stepping back from his role as CEO due to a personal health issue.

Political activity

Templeton contributed the maximum allowed by law to

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. In the past he has contributed to the

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, John McCain,

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, Tim Mahoney, and

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References

External links

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