Citrix’s GoToMeeting Recognized at Congressional Reception for Enabling Business Skills Training of Soldiers
WASHINGTON, DC
March 06, 2007
Executive Presents Certificate of Completion to Returned Soldier for “Boston-to-Baghdad” Entrepreneurship Program
Today at a congressional reception sponsored by the Small Business Task Force of the American Legion Economics Commission, Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), is being recognized for providing technology that lets U.S. soldiers and veterans in virtually any location worldwide – including Iraq – attend business training using Citrix® GoToMeeting® online Web conferencing service. Senator John Kerry, who chairs the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, is also being cited for his work on important issues and programs benefiting American veterans.
GoToMeeting enabled retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant-turned-entrepreneur Louis Celli to conduct live classes – for the first time in history – to soldiers deployed in a combat zone overseas. From his Boston office, he led 44 soldiers based in Iraq through an interactive 11-week online training course requiring them to develop viable business plans to be implemented when they returned home. The soldiers created their own makeshift classroom inside a utility tent which allowed Celli to deliver detailed course content and assist with development of Web pages for their proposed new ventures.
Now, Celli’s company is using the same Web-based GoToMeeting technology to lead courses for veterans residing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
“The beauty of bringing this program to Walter Reed is that GoToMeeting gives convalescing soldiers easy access to the coursework simply by using a PC and the Internet,” said Celli, president of the Northeast Veterans Business Resource Center. “GoToMeeting allows me to easily and reliably conduct courses by displaying the contents of my computer screen to up to 300 soldiers at a time.”
“We are honored to be part of this historic initiative for delivering business skills training to U.S. soldiers and veterans,” said Brett Caine, general manager of Citrix Online. “On behalf of our company whose own technology was originated by entrepreneurs, I offer our sincere thanks to Louis Celli and the American Legion’s Small Business Task Force for this recognition of GoToMeeting’s role in helping to train and inspire future business leaders.”
For more information, visit www.nevbrc.org or www.gotomeeting.com.
About Citrix Online
Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), is a leading provider of easy-to-use, on-demand applications for remote desktop access, Web conferencing and collaboration. Its award-winning services, which are used by more than 22,000 businesses and hundreds of thousands of individual subscribers, include: Citrix® GoToMyPC® for remote PC access; Citrix® GoToAssist™ for live remote support; Citrix® GoToMeeting® for online meetings; and Citrix® GoToWebinar™ for do-it-yourself Web events. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Citrix Online has offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.citrixonline.com.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% 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 2006 was $1.1 billion.