RALEIGH – Andrew Brown, a longtime veteran of IBM, joins Red Hat today and will soon become its chief revenue officer. He replaces Larry Stack, a Hatter since 2018, who will leave in the near future to become an executive advisor at IBM.
Raleigh-based Red Hat’s executive team continues to transition under recently named CEO Matt Hicks. IBM acquired Red Hat in 2019.
Stack and Brown will work together through Oct. 1, the company said.
Andrew Brown (Red Hat photo)
“Red Hat has an enormous opportunity to fuel hybrid cloud transformation globally, but this requires seamlessly integrating our product vision with our sales approach,” Hicks said in the announcement. “Andrew understands the intricacies of Red Hat’s business and our culture, and brings vast experience in delivering customer value at scale across a wide range of technology areas as we seek to address evolving customer requirements.”
Brown most recently was general manager of IBM Technology Sales United Kingdom & Ireland.
“I have followed Red Hat’s growth and progress over the last few years and have been impressed by the agility, foresight and innovative approach that the company and its culture embrace,” Brown said. “I am hugely excited about joining this unique organization and working with our customer-facing teams to innovate, collaborate and scale the hybrid cloud solutions Red Hat possesses in its open source platform approach.”
Stack will be a senior advisor within the IBM Global Government team, Red Hat said.
to assist in increasing IBM’s public sector footprint around the world, emphasizing current offerings as well as future initiatives like quantum computing.
