Chris Morgan
Vice President, Hybrid Platforms Tech Marketing & Evangelism, Partner Products Executive at Red Hat
- Role
- Vice President, Technical Marketing and Partner Products Executive at Red Hat
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Morgan
Chris Morgan is Vice President of Technical Marketing & Partner Products for Red Hat’s Hybrid Platforms, where he leads customer, field, and partner engagement—connecting Kubernetes, automation, and AI strategy to real outcomes across OpenShift, virtualization, and cloud-native stacks. A frequent keynote speaker, Chris is known for practical storytelling that blends technical depth with business clarity, helping audiences tie architecture choices to measurable impact—speed, reliability, security, and scale in hybrid clouds. He has led ecosystem growth and go-to-market with developers, ISVs, and cloud providers, and he regularly mentors teams on product strategy, competitive dynamics, and field readiness, always championing open source as the fastest path to innovation. Chris holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from NC State and an MBA from Pfeiffer University.
Experience
Vice President, Technical Marketing and Partner Products Executive
Apr 2024 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US
Building on a variety of previous roles, I have the pleasure and privilege of leading the Customer & Field Engagement team for Hybrid Platforms. This includes Tech Marketing, Field Product Management, Competitive Intelligence, and Technical Partner Engagement for OpenShift (Kubernetes), OpenShift AI, OpenStack, ACM (Cluster Management), ACS (Container Security), Storage, and Virtualization. Additionally, I am responsible for partner strategy for integration and consulting with this product set.
Education
MIT xPRO
Certificate, Quantum Computing Fundamentals
2019 — 2019
Pfeiffer University
MBA, Marketing Concentration
2001 — 2003
North Carolina State University
MS, Computer Engineering
1997 — 1999
North Carolina State University
BS, Computer Engineering
1992 — 1996
Skills
- Product Management
- Systems Management
- Technical Marketing
- Customer Interaction
- Cloud Computing
- Enterprise Software
- Virtualization
- Sales Enablement
- Saas
- Paas
- Open Source
- Middleware
- Competitive Analysis
- Iaas
- Software Project Management
- High Availability
- Business Alliances
- Vmware
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Redhat
- Solution Architecture
- Linux
- Operating Systems
- Pre-Sales
- Storage
- Enterprise Architecture
- Product Marketing
- Solution Selling
- Cluster
- Soa
- Partner Management
- Distributed Systems
- Professional Services
- Big Data
- Open Source Software
- Red Hat Linux
- Software as a Service (Saas)
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