An executive discussion: Strategies for moving
to the cloud

Lee serves IT infrastructure and operations professionals. His research focuses on public cloud, containers, modernization, and the wider transition to cloud-native computing and practices. He assists enterprises in creating pragmatic cloud strategies and developing execution roadmaps. Most notably, he seeks to reflect organizational context (e.g., industry, investments, regulations, skills, location) in these deliverables. Lee’s strong background in both financial services cloud/container strategies and governance and risk gives him a unique perspective. Key markets that Lee covers include multi cloud container development platforms, public cloud enterprise container platforms, and public cloud infrastructure and development platforms.

Michael Evans serves as Vice President, Technical Business Development at Red Hat. He joined Red Hat in 1999. He currently is responsible for identifying emerging business and new technology areas for Red Hat. Evans has also held the positions of Vice President, Corporate Development and Vice President, Worldwide OEM and Channel Sales at Red Hat, and served as a Board of Director for the One Laptop Per Child project. Prior to joining Red Hat in 1999, Evans was a founder of Bluecurve, Inc., a software company that specialized in systems management software. Red Hat acquired Bluecurve. Earlier in his career, he led business development for Intel platforms at Sybase. Evans graduated from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.