Adrian Keward

Chief Technologist, UK Public Sector

As Red Hat's Chief Technologist for the UK Public Sector, Adrian Keward helps define strategy for government customers. Starting his career in computer operations and management, Keward spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems. Following Sun, Keward joined the Outsourcer Attenda as Head of Pre-Sales and Consulting before joining Novell to be the Data Centre lead for Consulting.  In 2008, he joined HP to lead the Sun Replacement strategy in the UK, helping customers to move off expensive and legacy systems on to more modern, business driven solutions.

Since joining Red Hat in 2012, he has led our work with the UK Government (Central & Local) on its journey to open source, open standards, open architectures and open data.