Hans Roth - Senior Vice President & General Manager Red Hat EMEA - The power of open source

“Red Hat is an enterprise software company with an open source development model that is helping the world to consume open source software in a very productive manner”. Over the past 30 years Red Hat grew from 100 to 20 000 employees and over the last 5 years the company’s revenue has doubled.
In this #LeadershipDeepDive interview Hendrik Deckers talks to Hans Roth, Senior Vice President & General Manager Red Hat EMEA, about managing such an impressive growth and the key components that allowed the company reach this size: people, culture, innovative, open source development model and the ecosystem of clients, partners, integrators and hyperscalers - just to name a few.
Hans explained how he currently sees the evolving role of the CIO in organisations, how Red Hat helps companies be more successful and how providing choice for customers has always been a vital part of Red Hat’s DNA. Hendrik also asked Hans about the open hybrid cloud strategy, the role of digital sovereignty in today’s world and the culture of passion cultivated at the organisation.
Find out more and watch the full interview now!
Table of contents:
00:56 | Introduction
01:08 | Hans’s background
04:45 | About Red Hat
08:10 | Open culture
10:10 | Cooperation with partners
13:06 | Helping customers
14:35 | Open hybrid cloud
16:17 | Digital sovereignty
20:48 | The role of the CIO
22:56 | Red Hat’s organisation & Hans’ role
25:15 | Management style
27:46 | Leadership style
29:10 | Personality & MBTI profile
34:54 | Personal mantra, core values & mentors
39:25 | Best and worst things in life
42:28 | Loves & fears
45:25 | Hobbies
46:22 | The CIONET Cookbook & reading recommendations
48:43 | Advice for aspiring young professionals

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