GEC NEWS WIREBlack Duck Software CEO to Lead Newly-Formed Infrastructure Group
Tim Yeaton, former chief executive officer of Black Duck Software and a onetime Red Hat executive, has rejoined Red Hat in the newly-created position of senior vice president, Infrastructure Group. In this capacity, Yeaton will oversee the products and programs that are driving Red Hat’s infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business, including the Platform, Virtualization and OpenStack businesses, and Red Hat’s Cloud Management product line. Yeaton joins Red Hat as the company realigns its existing Products and Technologies organization to take advantage of technology convergence – from Linux and OpenStack to middleware and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) – and capitalize on growing interest in open hybrid cloud.
In addition to the Infrastructure Group led by Yeaton, Red Hat also appointed its longtime Middleware general manager, Craig Muzilla, as senior vice president of the company’s newly-formed Applications Platform Group.
Yeaton brings more than 30 years of software and technology management experience to his new role at Red Hat.
Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Group, Red Hat, said, “The IT industry is at its most dramatic architectural inflection point since the advent of client-server computing two decades ago – the emergence of cloud-based computing. Most of the innovation happening in cloud infrastructure, as well as in cloud enablement such as big data, mobility, cloud management, etc., is being catalyzed by open source technologies and community-driven development. Red Hat has an incredible opportunity to lead these shifts in IT, and its open hybrid cloud vision resonates strongly with many enterprise IT customers I’ve worked with over the last five years while at Black Duck. For me, the opportunity to rejoin Red Hat and lead the Group at the core of these industry changes is a once-in-a-lifetime one, and I’m very excited to be back at Red Hat and helping to drive the realization of the open hybrid cloud vision.”
