Matt Hicks
President and CEO of Red Hat and an IBM Senior Vice President; a founding engineer on the OpenShift team
Matt Hicks is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat, a role held since 2022, and IBM lists Hicks among its senior leaders as Senior Vice President and CEO of Red Hat. Red Hat's biography describes Hicks as a founding engineer on the OpenShift team and, before becoming CEO, Executive Vice President of Products and Technologies, overseeing product strategy, engineering, and support. It says that under Hicks, Red Hat launched OpenShift AI and Red Hat Inference Server for developing and deploying models, and acquired Neural Magic, strengthening Red Hat's role in the open-source vLLM inference project. Hicks began in engineering roles at IBM and at startups.132
Work
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat's biography describes Hicks as a founding engineer on the OpenShift team who helped establish it as a Kubernetes platform.1
Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat Inference Server
Red Hat's biography says that under Hicks's leadership Red Hat launched OpenShift AI and Red Hat Inference Server as platforms for model development and deployment, and led the acquisition of Neural Magic, which the biography ties to Red Hat's position in the vLLM project.1
Other documented roles
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