Red Hat Names Matt Hicks President, CEO

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open-source solutions, announced today the appointment of Matt Hicks as president and CEO. Hicks, who previously served as Red Hat's executive vice president of Products and Technologies, takes over for Paul Cormier, who will become Red Hat's chairman.

Photo Insert: Matt Hicks was responsible for Red Hat's product strategy and engineering as executive vice president of Products and Technologies.

According to Cormier, “Matt is the exemplification of a true Red Hatter and is absolutely the right person to step into this role. His experience across different parts of our business has given him depth and breadth of knowledge about how we can best work together to scale and remain the open hybrid cloud leader. He understands our product strategy and the direction the industry is moving in a way that’s second to none."

Hicks, known within Red Hat as a hands-on leader, joined the firm in 2006 as a developer on the IT team. He quickly progressed through the ranks of the corporation, assisting Red Hat in cementing its position as the open hybrid cloud technology leader.

Hicks was a key member of the engineering team that created Red Hat OpenShift, which has evolved into the backbone for hybrid cloud deployments across sectors and is now the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.

Since then, he has been at the forefront of hybrid cloud computing and Red Hat's product strategy.

“When I first joined Red Hat, I was passionate about open source and our mission, and I wanted to be a part of that. I am humbled and energized to be stepping into this role at this moment. There has never been a more exciting time to be in our industry and the opportunity in front of Red Hat is vast. I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and prove that open-source technology truly can unlock the world’s potential,” Hicks said in a company statement.

Hicks was responsible for Red Hat's product strategy and engineering as executive vice president of Products and Technologies. Notably, Red Hat's open hybrid cloud strategy and portfolio have expanded under Hicks' leadership to let clients design, deploy, and manage any application, anywhere, from on-premises to multiple clouds and to the edge.

This includes introducing new managed cloud services to help customers expedite the development of cloud-native applications, as well as new capabilities to accelerate AI development, product variations enabling edge use cases, and new security techniques that span hybrid cloud settings.

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