"As Red Hat continues to make strategic investments in our business and
move into new markets, having seamless integration between sales and
services and our technology vision is critical," said
Oberoi has led and repeatedly built rapidly-scaling businesses across a
wide spectrum of companies ranging from start-ups and mid-sized
companies to multi-billion dollar global organizations. Oberoi comes to
In his earlier roles, Oberoi was responsible for leading worldwide
sales, services and marketing organizations with a strong focus on
cultivating partner ecosystems as a core element of customer value
delivery and synergistic market reach. He was executive vice president
of worldwide sales and services at
Before that, Oberoi had an accomplished career at HP, where he held
various executive leadership roles, including vice president and general
manager of worldwide top 100 corporate accounts and industries, as well
as vice president and general manager of worldwide sales and marketing
for HP's software business. As part of HP's software business, he led
the development of a dedicated worldwide sales and marketing
organization for the portfolio, which included HP's OpenView Management
software, driving sales growth from initial stages to
Oberoi earned his Master of Business Administration from Northwestern
University's
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