Ashesh Badani

Ashesh Badani is a senior executive at Red Hat, currently serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer.1 2 In this role, he is responsible for overseeing Red Hat's entire product portfolio and business unit groups, including product strategy, business planning, product management, marketing, and operations across on-premise, public cloud, and edge environments.1

Career at Red Hat

Badani has held several key positions at Red Hat:

Current Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer (since July 2022)6
Previous Role: Senior Vice President of Cloud Platforms

Under his leadership, Red Hat has expanded OpenShift from a Platform-as-a-Service solution to the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, with over 1,000 customers globally.1 2

Product Responsibilities

Badani oversees several major Red Hat products, including:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat Ansible Automation
Developer tools
Middleware
Emerging cloud services and experiences1 2

Contributions and Achievements

Played a significant role in strategy, analysis, and integration for key Red Hat acquisitions, including StackRox (2021), CoreOS (2018), and FuseSource (2012)1 2
Helped solidify Red Hat's position as a hybrid cloud and enterprise Kubernetes leader1
Red Hat OpenShift, under his leadership, won the Multi/Hybrid Cloud Product of the Year at the 2023 Cloud Excellence Awards5

Prior Experience

Before joining Red Hat, Badani served as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing of Integration and Application Platform Products at Sun Microsystems.1 2

Personal

Badani is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.3 His LinkedIn username is asheshbadani, as mentioned in the query. On Twitter, he describes himself as "Always curious and learning"4, reflecting his approach to the rapidly evolving tech industry.