“Red Hat(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the leading developer and
provider of open source solutions, today announced that Mark White
has been named general manager of Red Hat Asia-Pacific. Mark
White will lead the expansion of Red Hat’s award-winning Red Hat
Linux software and services directly to enterprise users in
Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Korea, Greater China and
India early next year.“
“Prior to joining Red Hat, Mark was director of UNIX marketing
in Asia-Pacific for Compaq and responsible for the integration and
sales positioning of their Alpha, Intel and Tandem UNIX product
sets. He also led Compaq’s open source marketplace initiative in
Asia-Pacific. Prior to Compaq, he managed the UNIX and
telecommunications business activities for Tandem Computers and led
the IT operations and development for the Bell Atlantic
International subsidiary. Mark’s involvement in UNIX and the open
source community includes vice presidency of the Australian UNIX
and Open Source User Group (AUUG), the largest entity of its type
in the southern hemisphere.”
“We are excited to have Mark lead Red Hat’s Asia-Pacific
initiatives. He joins us with extensive experience in developing
enterprise focused sales and support operations and an invaluable
commitment to open source,” said Matthew Szulik, President and CEO
of Red Hat, Inc. “Red Hat Asia-Pacific will give users the
infrastructure to provide open source solutions and support to
Asia-Pacific companies moving business and Internet systems to Red
Hat Linux.”