Stefanie Chiras
Name: Stefanie Chiras
Job Title: Senior Vice President, Partner Ecosystem Success at Red Hat
Tenure in Role: One year
Previous Experience: Leading Red Hat’s Platforms Business Group and Linux unit; top roles at IBM, rounding out her time with Big Blue as head of Cognitive Systems.
Key Accomplishment: Continuing to bring Red Hat into the cloud channel. Under Chiras’ guidance, Red Hat this year has introduced collaboration with Kyndryl, the managed services IBM spinoff that does a lot of work in cloud computing via partners, updated its hybrid cloud platform and more.
What Makes Her a Leader: Years of experience leading critical efforts for IBM and now, the Red Hat channel, helping to turn a historically open-source software programming brand into a wider ecosystem play.
