Jim Whitehurst, former CEO of Raleigh-based Red Hat before it was sold to IBM where he served as president before leaving in 2021, is back in a CEO role.
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Former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has a new board assignment – he’s now an independent director at Tanium, a provider of data security services and technology.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Technology columnist Timothy Prickett Morgan is harshly critical of Jim Whitehurst’s departure as president of IBM, writing: “Someone at the company forgot what being named president of the IBM Company means. Or no longer cared.” Morgan, the co-editor of tech site The Next Platform and...
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Once a CEO, he wants to be one again. In an interview with Barron’s, Jim Whitehurst says he’s leaving IBM with the goal of becoming a CEO again after 12 years in that role at Red Hat.
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Jim Whitehurst, the former CEO of Red Hat who led the firm through a $34 billion acquisition by IBM and became the No. 2 exec at Big Blue, is stepping down.
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Jim Whitehurst, the former Red Hat CEO, now president at IBM, recently discussed how technology, and how companies approach innovation and implementation of technology, has changed during his career, and what the future holds, with reporters at C-Suite Quarterly.
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If anyone other than IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has it dead solid perfect about where the “real juice” in the $34 billion takeover of Red Hat two years ago, it’s Jim Whitehurst. Red Hat’s CEO at the time is now No. 2 to Krishna. So when Whitehurst spoke to the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference on Monday a lot of people were tuned in. Here’s a key part of what he had to say.
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IBM President Jim Whitehurst went on national TV Monday to tout the release of new products designed to protect data from the threat of quantum computing hackers and Big Blue’s advantage of “choice” in cloud computing.
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IBM’s long-time CEO Virginia Rometty is set to step down from her post on April 6, capping a 40-year run with the company. Big Blue announced her upcoming resignation in late January, with Arvind Krishna, IBM’s current vice president for Cloud and Cognitive Software as her replacement. And IBM’d top NC exec is excited.
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