Red Hat Names Nandu Pradhan as President and Managing Director of Red Hat India
October 04 2006 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions to the enterprise, today announced the appointment
of Nandu Pradhan as President and Managing Director of Red Hat
India Pvt. Ltd. Pradhan succeeds Javed Tapia, who will now serve as
a director on the board of Red Hat India. Pradhan will be
responsible for Red Hat India's current businesses and will also
spearhead the company's future investments in India. As a highly
respected professional in the Indian IT industry, Pradhan brings
more than 25 years of sales and management experience to Red Hat.
He has previously led and managed businesses for Novell, Microsoft
and Patni. Prior to joining Red Hat, Pradhan was Vice President
(EMEA and APAC) at Symphony Services. "I am extremely pleased that
Nandu will take over the reins to propel the growing adoption of
open source in India. I firmly believe Nandu�s past experience and
acumen will enable even greater growth for the company and further
Red Hat�s footprint in the Indian market," said Matthew Szulik,
Chairman and CEO, Red Hat. "I welcome Nandu to Red Hat, and we know
he will carry the open source movement to even greater heights in
India." "Linux as a technology platform is poised for strong growth
in India. This is an exciting time for the entire open source
movement, and I am thrilled with this opportunity to help drive Red
Hat's initiatives in the Subcontinent," said Pradhan. About Red
Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions
provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. 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 Forward Looking Statements Certain
statements contained in this press release may constitute
�forward-looking statements� within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements provide current expectations of future events based on
certain assumptions and include any statement that does not
directly relate to any historical or current fact. Actual results
may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking
statements as a result of various important factors, including:
risks related to the integration of acquisitions; the ability of
the Company to effectively compete; the inability to adequately
protect Company intellectual property and potential for
infringement or breach of license claims regarding third party
intellectual property; risks related to data and information
security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of, and control
over, the Company's growth and international operations; adverse
results in litigation; the dependence on key personnel as well as
other factors contained in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and
Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including
those found therein under the captions �Risk Factors� and
�Management�s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations�. In addition, the forward-looking statements
included in this press release represent the Company's views as of
the date of this press release and these views could change.
However, while the Company may elect to update these
forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company
specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These
forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as
representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the
date of the press release. LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
RED HAT and JBOSS are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. and
its subsidiaries in the US and other countries. Red Hat, Inc.
(NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions to the enterprise, today announced the appointment of
Nandu Pradhan as President and Managing Director of Red Hat India
Pvt. Ltd. Pradhan succeeds Javed Tapia, who will now serve as a
director on the board of Red Hat India. Pradhan will be responsible
for Red Hat India's current businesses and will also spearhead the
company's future investments in India. As a highly respected
professional in the Indian IT industry, Pradhan brings more than 25
years of sales and management experience to Red Hat. He has
previously led and managed businesses for Novell, Microsoft and
Patni. Prior to joining Red Hat, Pradhan was Vice President (EMEA
and APAC) at Symphony Services. "I am extremely pleased that Nandu
will take over the reins to propel the growing adoption of open
source in India. I firmly believe Nandu's past experience and
acumen will enable even greater growth for the company and further
Red Hat's footprint in the Indian market," said Matthew Szulik,
Chairman and CEO, Red Hat. "I welcome Nandu to Red Hat, and we know
he will carry the open source movement to even greater heights in
India." "Linux as a technology platform is poised for strong growth
in India. This is an exciting time for the entire open source
movement, and I am thrilled with this opportunity to help drive Red
Hat's initiatives in the Subcontinent," said Pradhan. About Red
Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions
provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. 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 Forward Looking Statements Certain
statements contained in this press release may constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements provide current expectations of future events based on
certain assumptions and include any statement that does not
directly relate to any historical or current fact. Actual results
may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking
statements as a result of various important factors, including:
risks related to the integration of acquisitions; the ability of
the Company to effectively compete; the inability to adequately
protect Company intellectual property and potential for
infringement or breach of license claims regarding third party
intellectual property; risks related to data and information
security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of, and control
over, the Company's growth and international operations; adverse
results in litigation; the dependence on key personnel as well as
other factors contained in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and
Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including
those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and
"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations". In addition, the forward-looking statements
included in this press release represent the Company's views as of
the date of this press release and these views could change.
However, while the Company may elect to update these
forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company
specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These
forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as
representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the
date of the press release. LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
RED HAT and JBOSS are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. and
its subsidiaries in the US and other countries.
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