Zaid Merchant

About Zaid Merchant

An MBA graduate from IIM Kozhikode, Citrix’s youngest Product Manager, and previously its very first PM intern (globally), Zaid has always strived to achieve greater heights. He is currently a Lead Product Manager at Citrix, leading the strategy for the Citrix Enterprise Browser, a first-of-its-kind browser enabling secure access to a customer\'s web and SaaS apps. He is also the PM for Citrix\'s Remote Browser Isolation product offering for access to sensitive apps with device and network isolation.He has been the PM for App Protection which comprises a host of security features against screen-capture and key-logging malware. Zaid has also worked as a Product Manager on Service Continuity - a project to increase the availability of Cloud resources. On the mobile front, Zaid has been the PM for the Citrix Workspace app for mobile web viewer, Citrix Secure Web and Secure Mail.Previously a Mumbai University topper, he has excelled at academics while pushing for overall development, including leading teams to conceptualize and organize Mumbai’s first inter-collegiate Hackathon, and his college’s first TEDx event. A keen IT-inclined individual, avid reader, and an F1 fan, he loves to speak on stage and has also won National and State-level awards for leadership, technology, and speech.

Experience

1. Lead Product Manager

   Citrix

   Sep 2023 — Present

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• Dadar PACE Junior Science College

  HSC, Bifocal-Science

  2012 — 2014

• St. Mary's School (I.C.S.E)

  High School, ICSE

  2003 — 2012

• Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering

  2014 — 2018

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• Sql
• Visual Studio
• Autocad
• Negotiation
• Html
• Php
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• C
• C#
• Convincing People
• Public Speaking
• Hadoop
• Java
• Leadership