In April 2003, Red Hat hired Alex Pinchev to be president of international operations, which basically meant sales outside of North America. Pinchev was soon elevated to the post of executive vice president of worldwide sales.
Now Red Hat has decided that it wants to have a dedicated sales person in charge of the North American market. To that end, Red Hat has named Lynne Corddry to that position.
Corddry was most recently vice president and general manager of Unisys Corp’s Federal Systems and Technology Business unit, which rakes in $180m a year in sales. Before that, she was in charge of government sales at Network Appliance Inc, a network storage maker. She has also been in executive sales at server maker SGI Inc and the former Digital Equipment, which is now part of Hewlett-Packard Co.
