Jim Whitehurst

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Jim Whitehurst is the Chief Executive Officer at Red Hat. Before that he was a Chief Operating Officer of Delta Air Lines, Inc. In that position he was responsible for Operations, Customer Service, Network and Revenue Management, Corporate Strategy and Marketing.

Mr. Whitehurst had most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Network and Planning Officer. Prior to joining Delta Air Lines in 2002, he served as Vice President and Director of The Boston Consulting Group and held various leadership roles in their Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Atlanta offices.

A native of Columbus, Georgia, he graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics. He also attended Erlangen Nuremberg University in Erlangen, Germany, holds a general course degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was tapped by Chief Executive Officer Gerald Grinstein to lead the historic traditional airline out of bankruptcy.

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Jim Whitehurst runs four Linux distributions. They are Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and Damn Small Linux. Jim Whitehurst is married and has two children.