Industry Veteran Greg Symon Joins Red Hat as Vice President and General Manager of North American Sales

RALEIGH, N.C.--(Business Wire)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world`s leading provider of open source
solutions, today named Greg Symon as vice president and general manager of North
American sales. With more than 25 years of business and sales experience, Symon
will play a key leadership role in the development and execution of Red Hat's
North American sales strategy and growth.

"We are very pleased to attract someone of Greg's caliber to lead our North
American sales team," said Alex Pinchev, executive vice president and president,
global sales, services and field marketing. "His extensive experience in the
software industry in combination with his proven leadership skills make Greg
ideally suited to drive Red Hat's sales strategy. Greg will be invaluable in
helping Red Hat continue expansion across our enterprise customer base and
further develop our presence in the North American market."

Prior to Red Hat, Symon held various senior sales management and business
development positions during a 22-year tenure with Intel Corporation. He most
recently served as senior managing director and founder of Intel's Global
Software Relations organization within the company's Software Solutions Group.
In this role, Symon led the creation and development of the software influencer
organization focused on developing and maintaining global relationships with
partners, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Operating System Vendors
(OSVs) to ensure success with the ecosystem and end-user account engagements.

Earlier in his Intel career, Symon was one of the primary architects and founder
of both the Influencer Evangelist and Worldwide Business Development
organizations. He has also held Intel positions including worldwide director of
the Customer Solutions Group Influencer Sales Team, Americas director of the
Architecture Management organization, manager of the Business Development
organization and director of the Strategic Relations Managers Group. Symon
received numerous company awards and recognition for his achievements with
Intel.

Throughout his career, Symon has focused on direct and indirect sales,
technology enablement programs and initiatives at Fortune 500 end-user
customers, system integrators, outsourcers, ISVs and OSVs. He holds a Bachelor's
degree in marketing/management from Western Connecticut State University where
he also founded and presided as president of the university's American Marketing
Association chapter.

"Red Hat is clearly positioned for continued growth and has established itself
as the industry leader in the open source infrastructure and middleware space,"
said Symon. "I look forward to leading this talented North American sales team
and accelerating the impressive work the company has already achieved."

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About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in
Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat first
for value in Enterprise Software for four consecutive years in the CIO Insight
Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable
technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support,
training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more:
http:www.redhat.com.

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