Red Hat has named Greg Symon as vice president and general manager of North American sales. With more than 25 years of business and sales experience, Symon will play a key leadership role in the development and execution of Red Hat's North American sales strategy and growth.

Prior to Red Hat, Symon held various senior sales management and business development positions during a 22-year tenure with Intel Corporation. He most recently served as senior managing director and founder of Intel's Global Software Relations organization within the company's Software Solutions Group. In this role, Symon led the creation and development of the software influencer organization focused on developing and maintaining global relationships with partners, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Operating System Vendors (OSVs) to ensure success with the ecosystem and end-user account engagements.

Earlier in his Intel career, Symon was one of the primary architects and founder of both the Influencer Evangelist and Worldwide Business Development organizations. He has also held Intel positions including worldwide director of the Customer Solutions Group Influencer Sales Team, Americas director of the Architecture Management organization, manager of the Business Development organization and director of the Strategic Relations Managers Group. Symon received numerous company awards and recognition for his achievements with Intel.

Throughout his career, Symon has focused on direct and indirect sales, technology enablement programs and initiatives at Fortune 500 end-user customers, system integrators, outsourcers, ISVs and OSVs. He holds a Bachelor's degree in marketing/management from Western Connecticut State University where he also founded and presided as president of the university's American Marketing Association chapter.