Rick Braddy is an avid bass fisherman, oil painter, writer, Texas Holdem player and professional software developer and marketer for over 25 years. His Poker Sidekick software and poker tools help people become better Texas Holdem poker and sit and go tournament players
PROFESSIONAL
Rick is the President/CEO of ConXentric, Inc., a marketing consultancy and information product company specializing in creating innovative business leverage solutions.
Rick was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of CITRIX Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), Virtualization Systems Group through December, 2007.
Mr. Braddy is responsible for Citrix's Technology Office in the Virtualization Systems Group, an $890 million business unit. Mr. Braddy is responsible for business and technology strategy, technology architectures and platforms, patents and intellectual property. Mr. Braddy joined Citrix in 2001, and has served in various VP Product Management, Product Marketing and Product Line Executive roles with Citrix.
Mr. Braddy has over 25 years of high technology experience. Prior to Citrix, he held key positions at BMC Software over an 8-year period, including group architect for eBusiness Solutions where he defined, built, and supported leading-edge service-level management solutions for managing Internet, application server, middleware, CRM and ERP systems, and developing database administration tools for Oracle and SQL-Server. Mr. Braddy is an inventor and hold patents on web load-balancing and fault-tolerant systems.
Prior to BMC, Mr. Braddy was an independent consultant specializing in real-time process control software. In 1986, as founder and President/CEO of Pioneering Controls Technologies, Mr. Braddy brought the first Unix-based process control software to market in the oil and gas, food processing, and manufacturing industries. As a consultant, software developer and entrepreneur, Mr. Braddy was involved in a wide range of software projects throughout the 1980's.
Mr. Braddy spent the late 1970's in the United States Air Force, where he specialized in top-secret cryptographic data and voice communications systems at NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs. Mr. Braddy graduated from US Air Force Cryptographic School with honors in 1977.
