Management Team

Pascal Lauria, VP of Sales & Marketing EMEA & APAC

Pascal Lauria is responsible for Xandros sales in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. He has over 12 years of IT business development and marketing experience, and has been a key player in recent OEM deals and acquisitions.

Pascal comes to Xandros from Scalix Corporation, where he successfully initiated and developed their European, Middle Eastern and African sales, developed partnerships with IBM Europe and other major industry players, opened the European headquarters, and established Scalix as the leading Linux alternative to Microsoft Exchange.

Before joining Scalix, Pascal was the EMEA Sales Manager for Samsung SDS Europe, where he established Samsung as the Unix groupware leader, and the only Unix/Linux groupware solution recommended by the German Ministry of Internal Affairs. Prior to that, Pascal was the European Sales Manager for Gensoft ITT Telecomunication, a leader in unified messaging and mobile technology, and European Account Executive at Ulead Systems, Taipei, Taiwan.

Pascal holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of Winnipeg. He is fluent in German, English, and Italian, and intermediate in Mandarin Chinese.