Red Hat names Brian Stevens CTO

RALEIGH, N.C.: Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced the appointment of Brian Stevens to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and vice-president of Engineering.

Stevens, formerly vice-president of Operating System, Storage and Clustering Development, has spent the past four years leading Red Hat's enterprise strategy. He brings 20 years of enterprise engineering, including experience as the former CTO of Mission Critical Linux.

As CTO, Stevens will focus on technology strategy and lead Red Hat's Emerging

Technologies group. This team will examine open source projects and technologies that will bring further value to the Linux platform.

"Brian's enterprise experience both before, and with Red Hat has been instrumental to our continued success in building out the Open Source Architecture," said Paul Cormier, executive vice-president of Engineering at Red Hat.

Prior to his position as CTO at Mission Critical Linux, Stevens spent 14-years at Digital/Compaq as a senior member of the technical staff. He built the first commercial release of X Window System, as part of Project Athena, a joint venture of Massachusetts

Institute of Technology and the Digital Equipment Corporation.

He served as the technical lead and architect for the inaugural release of Digital's

TruCluster product. Stevens also holds a US patent on secure methods of accessing

computers through a firewall.

Stevens holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire. He is based in Red Hat's Westford, MA office.