Jim Whitehurst is president and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise IT software solutions and services. With a background in business development, finance, and global operations, Whitehurst has proven expertise in helping companies flourish. Since joining Red Hat, Whitehurst has grown revenue from more than $500 million at the end of February 2008, to more than $3 billion for the company's 2019 fiscal year. Under his leadership, Red Hat was named to Forbes’ list of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies,” named to Fortune’s list of the Most Admired Companies, added to Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500 stock index, named one of the best places to work by Glassdoor, named to the Fortune Future 50 list, and added to the Forbes’ Global 2000 list. In addition, Whitehurst was named one of the World’s Best CEOs by Barron’s in 2018. In 2015, Whitehurst published a book with Harvard Business Review Press entitled "The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance" showing how open principles of management—based on transparency, participation, and community—can help organizations navigate and succeed in a fast-paced connected era.