Rajesh Rege appointed the MD for Red Hat India

BANGALORE, INDIA: Red Hat, Inc. today announced the hiring of Rajesh Rege as Managing Director for Red Hat India. Rajesh will work closely with all the business units to advance the open source benefits of cloud IT to meet customer needs in India.

Rajesh Rege is an IT veteran with more than 26 years of work experience spanning country business management, national sales management, industry business development as well as channel strategy and management roles in various global corporations.

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, senior VP and GM, Red Hat APAC 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 SAARC. Before Cisco, Rajesh spent 11 years with Sun Microsystems in various leadership roles.