{"id":11462,"date":"2023-01-19T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11462"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:17:50","slug":"knowling-77-elected-to-citrix-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2023\/01\/19\/knowling-77-elected-to-citrix-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowling \u201977 elected to Citrix board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/main_Wedgeworth-Knowling_220423091427-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/main_Wedgeworth-Knowling_220423091427-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11464\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Knowling, Jr. (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Knowling, Jr. \u201977 was recently elected to the Citrix Systems, Inc.&nbsp;board of directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBob brings great technology experience combined with a proven record of delivering strategic input and guidance to the board,\u201d David Henshall, president, CEO and director for Citrix said in a news release. \u201cHe will certainly be a great asset to Citrix as we continue to transform the company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowling will serve on the compensation committee of the board, and qualifies as an independent director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has more than 30 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors, leading companies through periods of high growth, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.researchpool.com\/company\/ctxs-us1773761002-citrix-systems-inc-YoOJK2RE2u\/press\/citrix-systems-inc-ctxs-citrix-elects-robert-e-knowling-jr-to-its-board-of-directors-l2C43YX2nR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to a news release<\/a>. Knowling is currently chairman of Eagles Landing Partners, a firm specializing in helping senior management teams formulate strategy, lead organizational transformations, and re-engineer businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his career, Knowling has served as chief executive officer (CEO) of several companies including Telwares, SimDesk Technologies and Covad Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowling currently serves on the board of directors of K12, Inc., Rite-Aid, Inc., Roper Technologies, Inc., and Stream Companies. He previously served as a director of Convergys Corporation until 2018; Ariba, Inc. until 2012; Heidrick &amp; Struggles International, Inc. until 2015; Hewlett-Packard Company until 2005; and The Immune Response Corporation until 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowling received a BA in theology from Wabash College and an MBA from Northwestern University\u2019s Kellogg School of Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Knowling, Jr. \u201977 was recently elected to the Citrix Systems, Inc.&nbsp;board of directors. \u201cBob brings great technology experience combined with a proven record of delivering strategic input and guidance to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/main_Wedgeworth-Knowling_220423091427.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}