Red Hat Forum EMEA 2020

Werner Knoblich is responsible for developing and executing Red Hat’s business strategy across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). His primary focus is on sales, marketing, and services. Since joining Red Hat in 2003, Werner has led the EMEA region to consistently exceed financial targets and deliver innovative solutions to overcome customer business challenges in both established and emerging markets. Prior to joining Red Hat, Knoblich spent more than 6 years working in the IT asset management sector for MainControl and MRO in the United States. Knoblich began his sales career working for USU Softwarehaus in Germany.

Martin Häring is member of the executive leadership team at Red Hat, responsible for the regional marketing organisation and go-to-market strategy.  He is a constant driver of open innovation with over 30 years’ experience in technology marketing and brand building, and an influential tech marketer, blogger and regular speaker on industry conferences. Martin is recognized for his thought leadership around open technology platforms and how the notion of openness can unlock the potential of people and businesses. He is also known for his focus on client engagement and pioneering ideas around enhancing the customer experience. Martin joined Red Hat in May 2020, prior to that, he held CMO and other executive leadership positions at Finastra, Akamai Technology, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Michel Isnard is responsible for leading the Regional Managers team and managing the relationship with Red Hat customers as well as partners. His primary focus is on Sales, Marketing, and Services, with the emphasis in promoting Red Hat’s vision on Open Hybrid Cloud, enabling the Enterprises shifting from proprietary to Open Source technology solutions across EMEA. Since joining Red Hat in 2012, Michel has led his region to consistently exceed financial targets and deliver innovative solutions to overcome customer business challenges in both established and emerging markets. Prior to joining Red Hat, Isnard worked at HP, mainly within the HP Software Group, Vice President JAPAC and Vice President of Sales, Worldwide Global Accounts, with a last role leading the Enterprise Business at HP in France.

I have been an IT technologist for 25 years working my way through multiple IT paradigms from mainframe to client-server to devops and microservices. I had been building IT solutions across multiple industries for most of my career before becoming a firm believer in how communities of like minded technologists can innovate and build better solutions through the power of Open Source community software. Working at Red Hat for the past 7 years has enabled me to help organisations take full advantage of Open Source innovations through making the technologies consumable through Red Hat.

Country Manager of Red Hat for Spain and Portugal since December 2016. With a degree in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Julia Bernal has held management positions at Sun Microsystems and Oracle since 2000; previously held different positions at Compaq and Digital Equipment (HP). As head of the Red Hat subsidiary in Spain and Portugal, she coordinates and executes the company's strategy with the aim of strengthening its leadership in business open source, maintaining and promoting the company's good growth rate in the region, accompanying the main companies to adopt business open source as a lever for innovation and speed up their path towards digital transformation, intensifying the relationship with the partner ecosystem.

Richard is the Presales Manager for the Solution Architect team in Spain and Portugal at Red Hat. Residing in Spain since 2000, he has worked for enterprise software and strategy consulting firms, developing and presenting the value proposition around technology transformation to multinational firms across Europe. Originally from the US, he possesses an MBA from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.

Miguel Ángel Díaz Villadóniga has over 20 years' experience in the sector, performing various roles such as presale, director of services, sales, business development... He defines himself as "an expert of nothing, an apprentice of everything". As Aeronautical Engineer, he continues with the aircraft bug, although from afar, but he continues to try to use "ingenuity" to help the ecosystem that surrounds him: colleagues, partners, customers, family.

In February 2015 he joined Red Hat as responsible for business development for Middleware, including OpenShift Platform (DevOps) and Mobility (Red Hat Mobile).

Responsible for driving the sales and business development of Cloud solutions for the Spanish and Portuguese markets, Pablo is a Computer Engineer and has more than 20 years of experience in the IT sector. Throughout his career, he has held technical positions such as Consultant and Presales Manager and business positions as Sales, Product Manager and Business Development Manager in leading companies such as Compaq or Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He is an information technology enthusiast, with a clear orientation towards open source software and open standards; he considers that standardization, automation and governance as well as orchestration of environments are key to a Hybrid Cloud model.

Carlos joined Red Hat almost 8 years ago as a Cloud Consultant, participating actively in the first Hybrid Cloud initiatives in Iberia. The past four years, as a Territory Services Manager, Carlos has been helping our customers with their transformation and culture-shift challenges, defining tailored Professional Services solutions for them, accelerating the adoption of Red Hat products and technologies. Now, Carlos coordinates the EMEA Consulting Sales organization and leads the Telco vertical in EMEA. He is focused on fostering a culture of collaboration within the team, capturing best practices in the sales and delivery process for re-use, and sharing with wider EMEA PreSales and Services teams.

Pilar Bravo joined Red Hat in 2008, in the EMEA Consulting Team, as a JBoss Middleware specialist. Since 2011 she has been working as a Solution Architect, helping customers and partners in the adoption of open source technologies. Pilar holds a Master in Computing Engineering from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Enterprise and Solution Architect focused on accelerating enterprise open source technology adoption to help companies create and deploy large-scale, resilient, distributed architectures — reactive, domain driven design and micro services — based on Red Hat technology.

Ramón Gordillo is a Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat, focused on middleware and containers. He has devoted his career to solution design, development and implementation in application integration, API management, real time processing and cloud technology, particularly in the telecommunications, finance and retail industries. In addition, he maintains a keen interest in the new challenges of microservices, serverless and edge computing architectures, and agile development models.

I am a software developer since 2005 and I develop Java web applications. I live in Madrid and I'm working for Red Hat with a focus on the integration of Spring Boot & Spring Cloud technology within the Red Hat Middleware portfolio. I contribute to existing or new Spring(Boot) & Cloud projects and enhance the developer experience by developing tools around Spring(Boot) technology. I have the willingness to learn in all aspects, actively contribute to the development of tomorrow's best practices.

Miguel is an experienced IT enthusiast with a clear orientation towards open source software & open standards. He has an extensive background in IT, from operations to architecture of large deployments; from identifying and prototyping solutions to defining IT strategies. He has delivered large projects, including NATO interoperable command and control systems in defence, and digital transformation in the finance sector. As part of the Cloud Platforms Business Unit, in Red Hat, he works to build the tools and define methodologies to ease modernization and migration for customers, enabling open source adoption.

A fervent supporter of Open Source since the 90s, Moises Rivera possesses more than 21 years of experience working on mission critical environments with Open Source technologies. As Principal Solution Architect and Technical Lead for the Iberia Cloud and Automation Team, his focus has been primarily technical, understanding and helping customers achieve their business goals. In the year 2000, he was using Extreme Programming (XP) methodologies and currently have a certified SCRUM Master and SCRUM Product Owner from the SCRUM Alliance.

In his daily role, he is focused on "translate" how new technologies and work methodologies bring unique value to the next way to do businesses.

  With a background in Electronics and Telecommunications, in the last 20 years Sérgio has been active in the field of I.T in various capacities, participating in some of the largest Telco projects in Europe. In that time he’s accrued several certifications and degrees across many facets of computer technologies from Storage to Datacenter Design. With a passion for everything Open Source, Sérgio is currently the Senior Solutions Architect for the Portuguese market, mainly focused on the latest technologies for infrastructure, cloud and applications such as: OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, OpenShift Container Platform, Ceph, etc.

Alex is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. He is passionate about the Java world, software automation and he believes in the open source software model. Alex is the creator of NoSQLUnit project, member of JSR374 (Java API for JSON Processing) Expert Group, the co-author of Testing Java Microservices book for Manning and Quarkus Cookbook for O'Reilly. A Java Champion since 2017, international speaker and teacher at Salle URL University, he has talked about new testing techniques for microservices and continuous delivery in the 21st century.

Linux and OpenSource user since 1999. My career is a little unusual, I worked in sales for 14 years but I was missing something in my career and that was technology so I decided to move to the IT business. I' ve been a consultant, a support engineer and also spent a lot of time automating stuff coding in shell, python and perl before being hired at Red Hat. Since I joined Red Hat I worked as a Solution Architect so I can enjoy what I enjoy the most, helping our customers and being close to technology.

Mario Vázquez is a Senior Software Engineer in the Solutions Engineering team at Red Hat. Before joining Solutions Engineering, Mario was helping OpenShift customers in Red Hat Consulting. Now he focuses on OpenShift Multi Cloud deployments and GitOps.

Cristina has in-depth knowledge and proven experience in the Telecom and Technology sector (Vodafone, Movistar, …), with more than 25 years of experience in executive positions, and she is the academic director of the Executive Master in Digital Transformation and Innovation Leadership in the IE. Currently she leads the definition and acceleration of the technology vision and IT strategy for Santander in her role of Global CTO, ensuring the alignment with entities, speedboats, global functions and Santander Digital’s goals.   She is a change agent, with a track record for effective execution of complex transformation projects; acts as translator and linkage builder for business and technology, managing multidisciplinary teams, and working effectively with the rest of company areas to accomplish business goals.

Marian Illera is an Industrial Engineer from the University of Valladolid and has completed her training with the IE Business School's Advanced Management Program. Since 2018 she has been Transformation and Technology Director at SEUR. Before that, she was linked to the field of business consulting in companies such as Accenture, highlighting her experience in Supply Chain Management. She joined SEUR in 2005, and since then, she has held various positions of responsibility in the Operations and Transformation and Technology areas, leading the operational mobility project until her appointment as director.

Fernando Lucero, graduated in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic of Madrid, has several master's degrees in prestigious business schools such as IE, IMD Business School and MIT Sloan & MIT CSAIL. His professional career has developed as an IT manager at CERN, ESA, Mapfre Asistencia, Lafarge and Isolux Corsan. In 2012 he was appointed Global CIO at Iberdrola.   He has an extensive experience in the digital transformation of businesses through technology, in managing change and modernization programs, aligning the technology area with business in complex, multicultural environments and large organizations. He has received the CIONET Spanish Digital Leadership Award 2017, the Award for the promotion of ICT in the Spanish Company 2015 AMETIC and the ComputerWorld Award 2015.

Telecommunications Engineer, my professional life has always been linked to SAP with different responsabilities within IT. Currently I work as a technical specialist in SAP systems.

Diego Duro Dapena is an Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Before joining Santander, he worked in companies such as IBM, Technosite and Avanza in different strategic technological roles. Since 2011 he has worked for different companies of the Santander group and since 2019 he is Dominio Engineering Director of Santander Technology Spain to transform the implementation area and build a customer-oriented service that allows accelerating the speed of software implementation in Santander Spain.

Technology-loving computer engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the IT sector. Javier is CIO at Grupo Carreras, where he is leading the digital transformation of the company, offering better logistics every day.

Cloud Architect, with 15 years of experience solving business problems with technology. Expert in infrastructure (Data Center and Cloud), automation. Secret weapons: Ansible, Python and Golang. Lawyer of Serverless architectures and SRE as DevOps implementation.

Computer Engineer with more than 20 years of experience. David has developed his career in different areas of IT such as application development, infrastructure, innovation and currently, architecture.

ICT professional with more than 20 years of experience helping clients from different sectors in their technological challenges, managing transformation or services projects. I am interested in everything related to Digital Transformation and Project Management. In addition to my passion for work, in my free time in addition to my family I like to dedicate time to running and paddle tennis.

Eloy has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Huelva and a master in Visual Analytics, Big Data and Data Processing from the International University of La Rioja. During the last 5 years he has worked at Telefónica de España on transformation projects and the adoption of new automation and container technologies. He is currently part of the OpenShift operations team.

In his current role as Global Head of Process Automation Cloud Architecture, Antonio Valle manages and leads the team that develop and maintain the BPM/Rules/Process Monitoring Platforms that serve the different countries where BBVA operates.