Corporate Fact Sheet for Red Hat

Profile:

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, applications, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more:

Red Hat's mission:

To be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way.

Founded:

1993

Number of Employees:

Over 4,000 worldwide

Ownership:

Publicly held (NYSE:RHT) as of August, 1999

Website:

www.redhat.com

Headquarters:

1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606
+1 919 754 3700

Over 74 offices in 33 countries

Management:

Jim Whitehurst
President and Chief Executive Officer

Charlie Peters
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mark Enzweiler
Vice President, Global Channels and Acting Head of Global Sales and Services

Paul Cormier
Executive Vice President and President, Products and Technologies

Michael Cunningham
Executive Vice President and General Counsel

DeLisa Alexander
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer

Jackie Yeaney
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Marketing

Lee Congdon
Chief Information Officer

Brian Stevens
CTO and Vice President, Engineering

Products and Services:

Red Hat offers a comprehensive line of software subscriptions, services, and support making it the leading resource for open source solutions.

Key customers:

Red Hat customers include enterprise organizations, academic and research institutions, and local, state and federal governments. Our customers include:

  • New York Stock Exchange
  • McKesson
  • Amazon.com
  • AOL
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Credit Suisse
  • DreamWorks
  • VeriSign
  • Charles Schwab
  • UBS Warburg
  • Morgan Stanley

Key partners:

AMD, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, SAP, Intel

Key Awards:

  • THE WORLD'S MOST INNOVATIVE GROWTH COMPANIES, Forbes, 2011
    Red Hat was ranked 7th in Forbes' World's Most Innovative Growth Companies in October 2011.
  • AMERICA'S 25 FASTEST-GROWING TECH COMPANIES, Forbes, 2011
    Red Hat was ranked 19th in Forbes' top 25 technology companies for growth.
  • AMERICA'S 100 BEST SMALL COMPANIES, Forbes, 2010
    Red Hat was ranked 84th in Forbes' annual list ranking the best publicly traded firms in the United States with sales under $1 billion.
  • TURBO TECHS 25, Forbes, 2009
    Red Hat was ranked 11th in Forbes' annual list of the 25 fastest-growing tech companies. To make the list, companies needed 12-month revenues of $25 million or more, annualized sales gains of at least 10 percent over the past five years, and a profit over the past 12 months.
  • BEST PLACES TO WORK IN IT, Computerworld, 2009, 2010
    Annual ranking of the top 100 work environments for technology professionals. Companies included in the list were evaluated across multiple categories, such as benefits, diversity, career development, training, and retention. Computerworld also surveyed more than 27,000 IT workers whose responses factored heavily in determining the rankings.
  • BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK 50, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010
    The Bloomberg BusinessWeek 50 list recognizes the 50 companies in the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index with the best total returns for shareholders over the previous five years (as of March 31, 2010). Red Hat was ranked 22nd on this list of top-performing companies.
  • IDC TRAINING MARKETSCAPE LEADER, IDC, 2011
    Red Hat Training was ranked in the leader category of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide IT Education and Training 2011 Vendor Analysis for the fourth time.
  • LARGE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY OF THE YEAR, North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA), 2009
    Red Hat was awarded "Large Technology Company of the Year" by NCTA in its 2009 NCTA 21 Awards. The criteria for this award included annual revenue of more than $100 million, market leadership, employment growth, innovation, and profit margin. Other finalists in the "Large Technology Company" category included Epic Games, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and Tekelec.
  • BEST PLACES TO WORK, Triangle Business Journal, 2009
    Recognizes leading employers from North Carolina's Triangle area that go beyond the norm to foster a fun, challenging and rewarding place to work. Red Hat is no stranger to this list and has been recognized in past years as one of the "Best Places to Work" in the Triangle.
  • CZECH REPUBLIC EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR, Large Company Category, 2011
    Red Hat was named Czech Employer of the Year within the large company category for its commitment to local employees and excellent human resource management. The 2011 awards program was organized by Aon Hewitt, an advisory and human resource management company. The recognition comes as a result of an independent study of 62 Czech companies.
  • BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN ARGENTINA, Apertura / Business Week, 2008, 2009
    Company associates in Argentina were surveyed on a variety of topics including internal and international mobility, career path, training, scope of benefits, social programs, attrition rate, and internal environment and climate. Red Hat made the list in 2008 as a top ten company and moved up to the number four ranking in 2009.