Simon Clephan, Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances, IGEL

Since joining IGEL in January 2017, Simon Clephan has been responsible for managing IGEL's strategic alliances with OEMs and system integrators, including AMD, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and VMware. He has also worked to drive company growth within the healthcare sector through the expansion of the relationships IGEL has with market-leading OEMs including Cerner, Epic, Caradigm, Imprivata and Nuance.

Clephan is passionate about working with IGEL's channel partners to help them achieve end-user productivity, and often talks about a "maniacal focus on the end-user." In his role at IGEL, Clephan regularly immerses himself in case studies and can often be found interviewing doctors, nurses, legal professionals and IT experts on how they can benefit best from VDI, application virtualization and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions.

As mid-market companies increasingly look to the cloud to reduce their capital expenditures and IT infrastructure management costs, he's working hard to ensure IGEL is delivering ease-of-use and productivity to the those who are working at desktop computing's "coal face," or frontlines, and trying to adapt to the evolving computing paradigm.