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Rich Gee is Head of 5G Sales at Red Hat. He leads global sales and business development focused on collaboration with customers in the telecommunications network and edge transformation, incubating emerging technologies and developing forward-looking solutions to generate new revenue. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2016, Gee was Director, OEM Sales at MicroStrategy, an analytics software company.
He has more than 30 years of experience in the enterprise software and information technology field as Director, Global Sales and Business Development at Sun, Oracle and Mellanox with over 20 years focused in the telecommunications industry. He has also previously developed emerging sales in the Industrial/Semiconductor, Retail and Consumer Electronics sectors. He is passionate about open source and community source software delivering next generation changes in broad markets and industries.