Joanna Crews
Alfred Zollar, a veteran of IBM, has been named to Red Hat‘s board of directors.
“Al will help us continue to anticipate and deliver open source technologies,” Naren Gupta, the board of directors chairman at Red Hat, said in Monday’s press release.
Zollar’s career started at IBM where he progressed to senior leadership roles that included serving as a division general manager for network computer software, as president and CEO for the Lotus Software division and as general manager of the eServer iSeries.
When he retired from IBM, he held the role of general manager for the Tivoli Software division.
He is currently on the Public Service Enterprise Group‘s board of directors where he serves as the finance committee chairman and member of the audit and fossil and nuclear generation operations oversight committees.
Zollar has also served with Siris Capital Group as an executive partner and Chubb as a director.
