Lee A. Congdon, 2013 Honoree

- Title
- CIO
- Employer
- Red Hat Inc.
- Location
- Raleigh, N.C.
- New titles in your IT organization:
- A senior director responsible for our shared systems and architecture. This leader sets our future in terms of enterprise architecture and focuses on data and analytics, a cross-Red Hat requirement.
- Characteristic most important in an IT hire:
- They have to be smart and innovative, flexible, and willing and able to lead change.
- Coolest current project:
- We are replacing our legacy global telephone infrastructure with an open-source telephone, messaging and video solution. We have many opportunities to further implement business social networking in Red Hat, to revamp our collaboration tools, and to further drive toward mobile devices to enable collaboration.