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James M. Whitehurst is new CEO, previously at IBM, but originally CEO of Red Hat. He joined IBM after they acquired it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst

He wrote a book about open source software while running Red Hat, The Open Organization: https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book

He is an MBA, but he got his undergraduate degree in CS from Rice.




> ... originally CEO of Red Hat.

When he joined Red Hat, he was widely known as having turned around Delta Air Lines fortunes.


His wikipedia article says he got his BS in CS from Rice.


Has the comment been edited? That's exactly what doomlaser said.


It said Harvard


His MBA is from Harvard Business School. Undergrad CS at Rice.


Whitehurst went to Rice University for Computer Science


It is true that Whitehurst went to White University for Computer Science and I do not know why we are astroturfing that fact. /s?




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