XenSource Adds Former Microsoft Exec to Team

XenSource announced that former Microsoft executive Gordon Mangione will join the company as senior vice president of product operations. Mangione brings more than 20 years of software experience to XenSource.

He led the successful development and delivery of a number of Windows-based products and services to the enterprise market. While with Microsoft, he was well known for having managed and bringing to market SQL Server and Exchange, two of the most widely used enterprise applications in the data center today.

Mangione comes to XenSource from Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm in Seattle, where he was an executive in residence.

“I am excited to join XenSource and create a strategic product roadmap to enable the company to take advantage of the numerous opportunities available to it,” said Mangione. “This is an exciting time and XenSource has a unique and dynamic business model based on the innovation of open source development and exploding market demand for volume virtualization products.”

Peter Levine, president and CEO of XenSource, said the addition of Mangione adds another exceptionally strong technology executive to the XenSource management team and that his experience leading product teams at Microsoft would help XenSource deliver great virtualization products to their customers.

Ian Pratt, XenSource founder and project leader of the open source Xen hypervisor project, said Mangione “brings to XenSource a wealth of experience delivering complex enterprise systems software and managing large distributed teams. With XenSource now shipping its first enterprise products, and ramping development with major ISV partners, Gord will play a key role in XenSource’s success.”