Pink Hat, a supplier of open supply options, introduced that it has named Matt Hicks as its President and Chief Govt Officer.
Hicks, who beforehand served as Pink Hat’s Govt Vice President of Merchandise and Applied sciences, succeeds Paul Cormier, who will function Chairman of Pink Hat.
Often called a hands-on chief inside Pink Hat, Hicks joined the corporate in 2006 as a developer on the IT crew.
He was a foundational member of the engineering crew that developed Pink Hat OpenShift which has grown into the spine for hybrid cloud deployments throughout industries, now serving because the trade’s enterprise Kubernetes platform.
With greater than 25 years expertise in Linux, a background in pc engineering, trade imaginative and prescient and enterprise acumen, Hicks is well-regarded for his work with clients and companions to resolve the following era of IT challenges with open supply innovation.
Cormier, who was named President and CEO in 2020, has a 21-year tenure at Pink Hat and through that point he has pushed a lot of the corporate’s open hybrid cloud technique, taking part in an instrumental position within the enlargement of Pink Hat’s portfolio to a full, trendy IT stack primarily based on open supply innovation.
As chairman, he’ll proceed his efforts to assist clients deliver that imaginative and prescient to life. In his new position, Cormier will function Pink Hat’s strategic touchstone and key advisor.
His focus will proceed to be on scaling the corporate and accelerating buyer adoption of open supply expertise to construct their open hybrid cloud structure.
Having led greater than 26 acquisitions at Pink Hat, Cormier may even work carefully with Pink Hat management on future M&A method.
He’ll proceed to work alongside IBM chairman and CEO, Arvind Krishna on this capability. Each Cormier and Hicks will report back to Krishna.
Matt Hicks
Matt Hicks, President and CEO, Pink Hat mentioned,
“Once I first joined Pink Hat, I used to be keen about open supply and our mission, and I needed to be part of that. I’m humbled and energised to be getting into this position at this second.
There has by no means been a extra thrilling time to be in our trade and the chance in entrance of Pink Hat is huge. I’m able to roll up my sleeves and show that open supply expertise really can unlock the world’s potential.”
Paul Cormier
Paul Cormier, Chairman, Pink Hat mentioned,
“As chairman, I’m excited to get to work with our clients, companions, and Matt in new methods. My focus transferring ahead can be on serving to clients drive innovation ahead with a hybrid cloud platform constructed on open supply expertise.
Open supply expertise has gained the innovation debates and regardless of the future appears to be like like, it’s going to be constructed on open supply expertise and Pink Hat can be there.
