Leadership team
Leading, the open source way
Red Hat® leaders apply open source principles—like open exchange, transparency, and meritocracy—to their management styles. It helped us become the first billion-dollar open source company, and it's how we continue to thrive.
Meet the team
DeLisa Alexander
Executive vice president and chief people officer
Marco Bill-Peter
Senior vice president of Customer Experience and Engagement (CEE)
Paul Cormier
Executive vice president and president, Products and Technologies
Michael Cunningham
Executive vice president and general counsel
Mark Enzweiler
Senior vice president, Global Channel Sales and Alliances
Matt Hicks
Senior vice president of Engineering
Mike Kelly
Chief information officer
Kirsten Kliphouse
Senior vice president and general manager of North America Commercial Sales
Werner Knoblich
Senior vice president and general manager, EMEA
Craig Muzilla
Senior vice president, Application Platforms Business
Arun Oberoi
Executive vice president, Global Sales and Services
Eric Shander
Executive vice president and chief financial officer
Paul Smith
Senior vice president and general manager, Public Sector, North America
Larry Stack
Senior vice president, Global Accounts and Target Industries
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen
Senior vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific
James Whitehurst
President and chief executive officer
Chris Wright
Vice president and chief technology officer
Tim Yeaton
Executive vice president and chief marketing officer
If you really want innovation to happen, you almost have to think about it as an ecosystem. A lot of companies think that the way to be more innovative is to put a group of creative people together. But your most creative ideas are going to come from people on the front lines who see a different way of doing the jobs they do every day. You have to create vehicles for those ideas to be heard.
Jim Whitehurst, President and chief executive officer, Red Hat