Tuesday, 26 June 2007

Red Hat Appoints New President to Drive Business in Greater China

Open source solutions provider Red Hat has appointed Andrew Hu as President of its Operations in Greater China...

Open source solutions provider Red Hat has appointed Andrew Hu as President of its Operations in Greater China.

Based in Beijing, Hu will responsible for overall operations, business development, marketing and sales in the region and will report to the President of Red Hat Asia-Pacific Operations, Gery Messer.

Before this appointment, Hu held the position of President, Asia Pacific at Wyse, a global leader in thin client.

With more than 20 years of professional IT management experience in North America and Asia, Hu also served as the Director of Greater China at Network Appliance, a world leader in unified storage solutions, where he was responsible for driving the company’s expansion in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. Hu also previously held a number of roles at Oracle China, including Managing Director with overall responsibility for the company’s sales and support operations in China.

“It is a very exciting time for open source and I look forward to helping Red Hat realize its potential in the Greater China market,” said Hu.

“With organizations under greater pressure to achieve more with less, there are now more reasons than ever for IT decision makers to consider open source for their mission-critical systems.”

Hu holds a Master's degree in business from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree from Virginia Polytechnic University.