Matt Hicks
| Matt Hicks | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Georgia Institute of Technology (BS)[1] |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Leading creation and development of OpenShift[2][3][4][5] |
| Title | President and CEO, Red Hat[6] |
Matt Hicks is an American computer engineer and business executive who serves as President and Chief executive officer (CEO) of Red Hat since July 12, 2022.[7][8][9][10]
Early life
Matt got a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Hardware engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. In the same year, he started to work at IBM as a Software Group Developer and Global Services Consultant until 2006.[11]
Career at Red Hat
Matt joined Red Hat in 2006 as an Engineering Team Lead to oversee migration of internal apps from a legacy to a J2EE-based infrastructure. He then rose in rank due to his participation in multiple tasks within the company, getting promoted to Senior Vice President in April 2010 and to Executive Vice President in April 2020. In his career, he is reported to be involved in a wide range of the company's products such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, OpenStack and most importantly OpenShift.[12]
OpenShift Development
Matt is said to be a foundational member of OpenShift, a commercial cloud suite for containerization built around Kubernetes. He led the development of the suite and gave seminars about it in several summits.[13][14] One of his last achievements before getting appointed as CEO was to make a deal with ABB over usage of OpenShift for increasing automation capabilities of the company.[15][16][17]
Becoming CEO
Matt replaced Paul Cormier as President and CEO of Red Hat on July 12, 2022, by a press release announced by the company. In his announcement, Paul praised Matt as the right person to replace him as a true Red Hatter that understands the company's product strategy.[18]
References
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthicksj
- ↑ "Red Hat Expands PaaS-Based Developer Tools -". THE Journal.
- ↑ Francisco, Jack Clark in San. "Red Hat tempts devs with OpenShift Origin upgrades". www.theregister.com.
- ↑ "Red Hat OpenShift Gains Management Features, Lower Edge Profile - SDxCentral".
- ↑ "OpenShift engineering guru Matt Hicks becomes Red Hat's CEO". MSN.
- ↑ "Matt Hicks | Red Hat". www.redhat.com.
- ↑ "Red Hat Names Matt Hicks President and Chief Executive Officer". www.redhat.com.
- ↑ "Red Hat Names Matt Hicks President and Chief Executive Officer". finance.yahoo.com.
- ↑ "CEO change at Red Hat: 'The best is yet to come,' Paul Cormeir tells employees | WRAL TechWire". wraltechwire.com. July 13, 2022.
- ↑ Eanes, Zachery (July 13, 2022). "Red Hat has named Matt Hicks its CEO as revenues grow post IBM merger". Axios.
- ↑ https://www.zdnet.com/article/from-software-developer-to-ceo-red-hats-matt-hicks-on-his-journey-to-the-top/
- ↑ "Matt Hicks". enterprisersproject.com.
- ↑ "Think 2022". www.ibm.com. November 23, 2021.
- ↑ "Red Hat's new Health Index for Linux containers". May 2, 2017.
- ↑ Robinson, Dan. "OpenShift guru Matt Hicks now Red Hat's CEO". www.theregister.com.
- ↑ "ABB and Red Hat partner to deliver further scalable digital solutions across industrial edge and hybrid cloud". www.redhat.com.
- ↑ "ABB and Red Hat Partner to Deliver Further Scalable Digital Solutions Across Industrial Edge and Hybrid Cloud". Automation World. July 12, 2022.
- ↑ "Red Hat shuffles top management: CEO now chairman, is replaced by tech VP | WRAL TechWire". wraltechwire.com. July 13, 2022.
| Business positions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Paul Cormier |
President and CEO of Red Hat July 12, 2022 - Present |
Incumbent |
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