Citrix CEO Mark Templeton demonstrated an early version of BlueStacks onstage and announced that the companies had formed a partnership. The company was announced May 26, 2011, at the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco. The company was founded in 2009 by Jay Vaishnav, Suman Saraf, and Rosen Sharma, former CTO at McAfee and a board member of. The BlueStacks App Player is designed to enable Android applications to run on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Apple's macOS. Windows 7 or later macOS Sierra or later īlueStacks is an American technology company known for the BlueStacks App Player and other cloud-based cross-platform products.