Red Hat India appoints Rajesh Rege as managing director

NEW DELHI: Enterprise open source solutions provider Red Hat India today appointed Rajesh Rege as its managing director.

Rajesh will work closely with all business units to advance the open source benefits of cloud IT to meet customer needs in India, the company said in a statement.

Commenting on this appointment, Red Hat Asia Pacific senior vice president and general manager Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen said: "Rajesh's appointment will further add to the value of the Red Hat management team in APAC, and especially in India as it grows as a key market for open source.

I am confident that he will be able to drive and advance our strong portfolio of Asia-Pacific and India clients."

Prior to joining Red Hat, Rajesh was with Cisco for four years as director and country head of Data Center and Cloud Business for Cisco in India, and across the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

While at Cisco, he was responsible for driving the datacenter and visualisation strategy in India, a key focus area in cloud and datacenter transformation across services providers and enterprise customers.

Before Cisco, Rajesh spent 11 years with Sun Microsystems in various leadership roles.