Alessandro Perilli is the GM, Management Strategy at Red Hat.
Perilli helps to chart the long-term strategy in the Red Hat management business unit, including company efforts in cloud management, IT automation, and self-healing IT. He also develops the vision behind new management initiatives in multiple areas like cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. He has led the creation of Ansible Security Automation.
Perilli is a member of the European AI Alliance and has co-authored the first Cloud Computing Risk Assessment for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He is a former Gartner analyst, where he led the research for private cloud and cloud management in the early years of cloud computing. He was also a pioneer of the virtualization industry as an advisor for Fortune Global 2000 companies.
Perilli started his career in 1999, publishing a book about cybersecurity for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and creating one of the first ethical hacking classes in the world.
