Red Hat Adds Top Level Talent to Focus on Customer Experience.

Company Hires Former EMC Executive, Nicholas Van Wyk, to Take on Role of Vice President of Operations to Optimize Subscription Experience and Support of the Channel

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced the hiring of Nicholas Van Wyk in the newly created role, Vice President of Operations. Van Wyk will drive the optimization of Red Hat's subscription model and work to create business process to better support the channel.

Van Wyk comes to Red Hat from EMC, where he was responsible for integrating Legato's channel operations into EMC's channel software strategy as Vice President of Worldwide Channel Operations, Combined Software Division. Prior to the acquisition of Legato by EMC, Van Wyk served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales Operations at Legato.

Van Wyk will report to Joanne Rohde, Executive Vice President of Global Operations at Red Hat.

"Red Hat's subscription model combined with a pure open source methodology has proven to be one of the strongest combinations for customer success in technology over the last few years. Our resolve to optimize to better suit the needs of customers and partners has never been stronger," said Rohde. "This resolve is demonstrated today with the creation of a new role and hiring of Nick. His experience working with enterprise partners and customers makes him the perfect fit for this role."

"Red Hat's mantra is to create value for customers. I believe this is one of few companies actually positioned to make this happen," said Van Wyk. "Working closely with channel partners and customers, I hope to drive forward the value creation Red Hat started years ago."

Van Wyk will be based at Red Hat's headquarters in Raleigh, NC.

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Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. CIOs and other senior-level IT executives have ranked Red Hat as the industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides an operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with applications, management, and middleware solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat is accelerating the shift to service-oriented architectures and enabling the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, secure open source platform. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with a focus on security and ease of management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com

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