Red Hat, Inc. announced the appointment of Andrew Brown as senior vice president and chief revenue officer. Brown joins Red Hat and will succeed Larry Stack effective October 1, 2023. Stack will work alongside Brown through Third Quarter to facilitate a smooth leadership transition, before joining IBM in a senior advisor role.

In his role at Red Hat, Brown will be responsible for commercial and public sector sales, channel and alliances sales, and consulting services, as well as the company's global go-to-market strategy. He is a software industry veteran with more than 28 years of experience delivering results for customers in hybrid cloud and transformational technology. He joins Red Hat from IBM where he most recently served as general manager of IBM Technology Sales United Kingdom Ireland.

In that role, he was responsible for leading, transforming and expanding IBM's Technology go-to-market organization, overseeing the sales, strategy, management and delivery of IBM's Systems, Public Cloud, Cloud Cognitive Software including Integration, Data AI Solutions, Security and Watson Applications used by over 10,000 businesses. He started his career at IBM as an intern in the Warwick Lab and since then worked his way up to a variety o senior leadership roles in Software including general manager of Cloud Cognitive Solutions EMEA, vice president Worldwide Sales Cloud Smarter Infrastructure. Stack most recently served as executive vice president and chief revenue officer for Red Hat.

He joined the in 2018 as its first leader for global accounts and targeted industries, helping to expand the value Red Hat delivers to large customers. During his time with the company, he worked to expand Red Hat's commercial presence in North America. Prior to joining Red Hat, he held roles at DXC Technology, Accenture, HP and Fujitsu.

In his new role at IBM, Stack will serve as a senior advisor within the IBM Global Government team to assist in increasing IBM's public sector footprint around the world, emphasizing current offerings as well as future initiatives like quantum computing.