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Paul J. Cormier is a business executive and chairman of Red Hat. He previously was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from April 2020 to July 2022.
- When Did Your Interest in Computers and Technology Begin?
- What Was Your First Programming Language?
- What Was The Most Memorable Part of Your Early Career?
- How Did You Become Interested in Open Source?
- Who Has Had The Most Impact on Your Career?
- When Was A Time That You Put Your Job on The Line For A Decision?
Paul:When I was in high school, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) did their manufacturing in central Massachusetts and my dad was the facility manager. He got me my first summer job and some of the engineers I worked with offered to train me on Logic so I could fix boards that go into computers. I did that part-time, on weekends, after school and...
Paul:It’s difficult to remember the first language, but since I was at DEC and it was in assembler because it was microcode, I believe it was Pascal. They had to do Pascal because it was sort of like C, but you could keep out of some of the trouble that C would get you in because Pascal was a bit more forgiving. I also worked in Fortran, BASIC, COB...
Paul: Working in corporate support in my mid-20’s was a pretty unique experience. I would fly out to help companies that had been trying to solve a problem for weeks or sometimes a month. It was such a cool experience for me and quite honestly, it’s probably where I built up my backbone. I was a younger guy coming into these situations to help peop...
Paul: What first interested me about open source was that I saw from Athena. I saw the innovation that happened because everybody was working together to solve the same problem. This was back in the UNIX days. UNIX was intended initially to be an open source operating system, but hardware companies like DEC, IBM, HP, Sun and others took it, made it...
Paul: My mentor was an executive at DEC named Rose Ann Giordano, and if I look back at that, she probably had the most impact on my career because she gave me a break. Early on in my career, DEC was starting an internet group, which sounds kind of blasé now, but at the time, no one had done it yet and they were looking for someone to run it. I had ...
Paul: That’s easy, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was an unbelievable experience and by far the most successful thing I ever have or ever will work on. At the time we didn't even realize the long shot we were taking. The people who were here during that period sometimes forget the leap we took and there’s a lot of people who are at Red Hat now who do...
Apr 6, 2020 · Red Hat, Inc. today announced that it has named Paul Cormier as president and chief executive officer of Red Hat. Cormier, who previously served as Red Hat’s president of Products and Technologies, succeeds Jim Whitehurst, who is now president of IBM.
Mar 21, 2024 · I can sum up his tenure very simply – Paul Cormier is Red Hat. His fingerprints are on just about every part of the company. Arguably more than any other Red Hatter, he is responsible for the direction of our product portfolio and the position the company is in today.
Apr 6, 2020 · To fill his role, Red Hat announced today that long-time executive Paul Cormier has been named president and CEO. Cormier would seem to be a logical choice to run Red Hat, having been with...
Mar 21, 2024 · Red Hat chairman Paul Cormier to retire, CEO Matt Hicks thanks him and reiterates open source AI enterprise tools investment.
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Apr 6, 2020 · Paul Cormier, longtime @RedHat executive and open hybrid cloud visionary, named Red Hat president and CEO. [LINK] Tweet this. Since joining Red Hat in 2001, Cormier's leadership and vision...
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