Red Hat Summit 2019

Dr. Stefanie Chiras is the vice president and general manager of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Unit at Red Hat. She joined Red Hat in July 2018 and has worldwide business responsibility for the successful definition, execution, and delivery of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line. Prior to this role she was the vice president of offering management for IBM Cognitive Systems. As part of the Cognitive Systems brand team, she led the worldwide business for the systems portfolio, AIX, IBM i, Linux, the system software portfolio, and the cloud stack. Within that responsibility she drove the strategic implementation of transforming the portfolio to support both enterprise workloads as well as AI, ML and DL and ensuring the portfolio delivered leadership in both.