Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy

Michael Ferris is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Red Hat. In this role, he is focused on building the company’s global business strategy across all offerings and services, mergers and acquisitions, and market-making partnerships.

Ferris, who has been with Red Hat for more than 20 years, has focused on the company’s business model and worked to define its business architecture, leading strategy and business negotiations with high-profile partners and leading the evolution of Red Hat’s subscriptions from capacity to consumption models.

Ferris is either the sole or a teamed inventor of more than 85 issued U.S. patents in the space of cloud computing, all of which are covered under Red Hat's patent promise in support and defense of open source development.

Chief Product Officer

Ashesh Badani is Cheif Product Officer at Red Hat, where he leads the company’s broad hybrid cloud portfolio. This includes product development and go-to-market strategies for Red Hat® OpenShift®, Red Hat OpenStack® Platform, Red Hat Virtualization, and Red Hat developer tools. Under Badani’s leadership, the company expanded OpenShift from an award-winning Platform-as-a-Service solution to the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, with 1,000+ customers spanning all regions and industries.

Previously, Badani served as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing of Integration and Application Platform Products at Sun Microsystems. He has more than 20 years of experience in the technology and finance industries at both established and emerging companies.

CTO and SVP of Global Engineering 

Chris Wright is Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat. He leads a team that guides Red Hat’s technology vision, co-creates technologies, and implements change to ensure the success of Red Hat’s associates, customers, communities, and partners. 

Wright’s organization includes: Office of the CTO, Ecosystem Engineering, Product Security, Global Engineering Associate Experience, Product Engineering, Experience Engineering, and CTO Customer-Led Open Innovation.

During his 25+ years as a software engineer and 15+ years as a Linux® developer, Wright has worked in Linux security, virtualization, networking, and telecommunications. He is passionate about open source software serving as the foundation for next-generation IT systems

President & Chief Executive Officer

Matt Hicks was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat in July 2022. In his previous role, he was Executive Vice President of Products and Technologies where he was responsible for product engineering for much of the company’s portfolio, including Red Hat® OpenShift® and Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. He is one of the founding members of the OpenShift team and has been at the forefront of cloud computing ever since.

Prior to joining Red Hat 16 years ago, Hicks served in various roles spanning computer engineering, IT, and consulting. He has worked with Linux and open source for more than 25 years, and his breadth of experience has helped him solve customer and business problems across all areas of IT

Head of CIO Office

Marco Eijsackers has more than 20 years of professional experience in various roles in strategy, marketing, sales, IT, and transformation. Throughout his career, he concentrated increasingly on translating strategy into execution and driving transformation. Currently he is leading ING’s tech strategy and transformation to establish a global scalable tech platform that enables the delivery of superior customer experiences and connects to other platforms in the ecosystem. In addition to his work at ING, he is closely associated with London Business School as a lecturer on strategy, digital transformation and agility and involved with several start-ups and charities. He holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from INSEAD and a postgraduate degree from London Business School.