[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Red Hat has appointed Arun Oberoi as executive vice president of global sales and services. Oberoi brings strong go-to-market executive experience – including global leadership roles with HP and IBM – to Red Hat, where he will further develop the company’s sales and services strategy.

Oberoi comes to Red Hat from Viridity Software, a data center infrastructure management start-up, where he served as president and CEO, doubling new customers every consecutive quarter in 2011, and seeing the company’s flagship product through its recent acquisition by Schneider Electric. Prior to Viridity, Oberoi was CEO of Aveksa, an access governance and management software start-up.

In his earlier roles, Oberoi was executive vice president of worldwide sales and services at Micromuse, a provider of network and service management solutions. Micromuse was acquired by IBM, where Oberoi led the integration and its continued fast growth and field expansion as vice president within IBM Tivoli.

Before that, Oberoi was with HP, where he held various executive leadership roles, including vice president and general manager of worldwide top 100 corporate accounts and industries, as well as vice president and general manager of worldwide sales and marketing for HP’s software business.

Oberoi earned his Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He also has a Master of Business Administration from Panjab University Business School in Chandigarh, India, and a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from India’s Delhi University.