Joe Kim is a Senior Operating Partner with Francisco Partners Consulting. He is an experienced CTO and General Manager with over 20 years of operating executive experience in the infrastructure, application and security software segments. Most recently, Joe served as Chief Product and Technical Officer for Citrix Systems where he was responsible for strategy, development and delivery of the company’s $3.2 billion portfolio of products, technologies and solutions. He previously served as Global CTO and Head of Engineering at SolarWinds. Earlier in his career Joe held a broad range of roles at GE and at HP Enterprise. Across his roles, Joe has overseen numerous technical, strategic and operational transformations across scale businesses. Joe currently serves on the boards of SmartBear and Andela, is a member of the Innovation Advisory Council and a graduate of Marquette University.