Board of Directors

James M. Whitehurst , Director, President and CEO

James M. Whitehurst has served as the President and CEO of Red Hat and as a member of the Board since January 2008. Prior to joining Red Hat, Mr. Whitehurst served at Delta Air Lines, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer from July 2005 to August 2007, as Senior Vice President and Chief Network and Planning Officer from May 2004 to July 2005 and as Senior Vice President-Finance, Treasury & Business Development from January 2002 to May 2004. Prior to joining Delta, he was a partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Whitehurst was appointed to the board of directors of United Continental Holdings, Inc., the holding company of United Airlines, Inc., a global airline company, in March 2016 and to the board of directors of SecureWorks Corp., a provider of information security solutions, in April 2016. Mr. Whitehurst served on the board of directors of DigitalGlobe, Inc., a builder and operator of satellites for digital imaging, from 2009 through May 2016.

Narendra K. Gupta , Chairman of the Board

Narendra K. Gupta co-founded and has served as Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners, a U.S./India venture capital fund, since December 2006. In 1980, Dr. Gupta co-founded Integrated Systems Inc., a provider of products for embedded software development, which went public in 1990. Dr. Gupta served as Integrated System's President and CEO from founding until 1994 and as Chairman until 2000 when Integrated Systems merged with Wind River Systems, Inc., a provider of device software optimization solutions. Dr. Gupta served as Wind River's Vice Chairman from 2000 until its acquisition by Intel Corporation in 2009. Dr. Gupta served on the board of directors of Tibco Software Inc, a provider of service-oriented architecture and business process management enterprise software, from 2002 until 2014. Dr. Gupta has served on the board of trustees of California Institute of Technology since 2010.

Sohaib Abbasi , Director

Sohaib Abbasi served as the Chief Executive Officer and president of Informatica Corporation, a provider of enterprise data integration software and services, from July 2004 through August 2015 and as Chairman of its board of directors from March 2005 through August 2015.  Mr. Abbasi also served as the Chairman of Informatica LLC from August 2015 through January 2016. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Abbasi was Senior Vice President, Oracle Tools Division and Oracle Education at Oracle Corporation, which he joined in 1982. From 1994 to 2000, he was Senior Vice President, Oracle Tools Product Division.  Mr. Abbasi currently serves on the board of directors of New Relic, Inc., a software analytics provider to enterprises.

Steve Albrecht , Director

Steve Albrecht, who previously served on Red Hat's Board from April 2003 through June 2009, served as the Gunnell Endowed Professor and a Wheatley Fellow at Brigham Young University's ("BYU") Marriott School of Management (“Marriott School”) from July 2012 through August 2017.  Dr. Albrecht also served as a mission president in Japan for his church from July 2009 through July 2012.  Dr. Albrecht, a certified public accountant, certified internal auditor and certified fraud examiner, joined BYU in 1977 after teaching at Stanford University and the University of Illinois and served as Associate Dean of the Marriott School at BYU from 1998 until July 2008. Prior to becoming a professor, he worked as an accountant for Deloitte & Touche. Dr. Albrecht currently serves on the board of directors of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation ("Cypress"), a semiconductor design and manufacturing company, and SkyWest, Inc., the holding company of SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet, a regional airline company.  Dr. Albrecht was appointed Chairman of the board of directors of Cypress in June 2017. He is the past president of the American Accounting Association and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is a former trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation that oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and a former trustee of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO), the organization that designed the internal control framework used by nearly all public companies and other organizations.

Charlene Begley , Director

Charlene Begley served in various capacities at General Electric Company ("GE") from 1988 through December 2013. Most recently, she served in a dual role as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, as well as the President and Chief Executive Officer of GE’s Home and Business Solutions business from January 2010 through December 2013. Ms. Begley served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Enterprise Solutions from August 2007 through December 2009. During her career at GE, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Plastics and GE Transportation, led GE’s Corporate Audit staff and served as the Chief Financial Officer for GE Transportation and GE Plastics Europe and India. Ms. Begley currently serves on the board of directors of Nasdaq, Inc., a global exchange group that delivers trading, clearing, exchange technology, regulatory, securities listing, and public company services, and Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., a provider of hospitality services through hotels, resorts and timeshare properties. Ms. Begley served on the board of directors of WPP, plc, a provider of marketing communications services globally, from December 2013 until June 2017.

Kim Hammonds , Director

Kim Hammonds served as the Group Chief Operating Officer at Deutsche Bank AG, a global financial services company, from January 2016 to May 2018 and as a member of the Deutsche Bank Management Board from August 2016 to May 2018.  She joined Deutsche Bank as Chief Information Officer and Global Co-Head Technology and Operations in November 2013 from The Boeing Company, a global aerospace company.  Ms. Hammonds joined Boeing in 2008 and served in a number of capacities, including most recently as Chief Information Officer/Vice President, Global Infrastructure, Global Business Systems from January 2011 to November 2013.  Ms. Hammonds joined Boeing from Dell Incorporated, where she led IT systems development for manufacturing operations in the Americas, and directed global IT reliability and factory systems. Ms. Hammonds currently serves on the board of directors of Cloudera, Inc., a data management, machine learning and advance analytics platform provider, Tenable Holdings, a provider of cybersecurity solutions, and Box Inc., a cloud content management platform.

William S. Kaiser , Director

William S. Kaiser has been employed by Greylock Management Corporation, a venture capital firm, since May 1986 and has been a general partners of several limited partnerships affiliated with Greylock Partners since January 1988.  Mr. Kaiser served on the board of directors of Constant Contact, Inc., a provider of products and services that help small organizations create and grow customer relationships, from May 2006 to February 2016 in addition to serving or having served on the boards of directors of a number of public and private companies.

Kevin M. Murai , Director

Mr. Murai has been employed by Synnex Corporation (“Synnex”), a company providing distribution, logistics and integration services for the technology industry and outsourced services focused on customer engagement, since March 2008.  He served as President and Chief Executive Officer from December 2008 until March 1, 2018 and President and Co-Chief Executive Officer from March 2008 until December 2008.  Mr. Murai has been a director of Synnex since March 2008 and has served as its Chairman of the Board since March 1, 2018.  Prior to joining Synnex, he was employed for 19 years at Ingram Micro Inc., a provider of global technology and supply chain services, where he served in several executive management positions, including as President, Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors for StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company.

Alfred W. Zollar , Director

Alfred W. Zollar has been employed as an Executive Partner at Siris Capital Group, LLC, a private equity firm, since February 2014.  Mr. Zollar served as General Manager-Tivoli Software division of International Business Machines Corporation, a provider of information technology, products and services, from July 2004 to January 2011, General Manager-eServer iSeries from January 2003 to July 2004, President and Chief Executive Officer-Lotus Software division from January 2000 to December 2003, and Division General Manager-Network Computer Software division from 1996 to 2000.  Mr. Zollar has served on the board of directors of Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated, an energy company operating primarily in the Northeastern and Mid- Atlantic states, since 2012. Mr. Zollar served as a director of the Chubb Corporation, a property and casualty insurance company, from 2001 until 2016, in addition to serving or having served on the boards of directors of a number of public and private companies.

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