JWhitehurst

Jim Whitehurst is Red Hat's president and chief executive officer. Jim's exposure to open source began with Slackware Linux in the early 90s. He later switched to Fedora, the community Linux project sponsored by Red Hat. He became directly involved in the open source movement when he joined Red Hat in December 2007.

Before Red Hat, Jim served as chief operating officer at Delta Air Lines and as vice president and director of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). A native of Columbus, GA, he graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics. He also attended Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany and holds a general course degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School.