James Whitehurst, Founder of Unity

James Whitehurst is the Executive Chairman at Unity Technologies. Based in San Francisco, United States.

About James Whitehurst

James Whitehurst is the Executive Chairman at Unity Technologies. Previously, he served as president of IBM and was president and CEO of Red Hat from 2008 to 2020, where he grew the company into the first multi-billion revenue open-source software company. He led Red Hat's acquisition by IBM for $34 billion in 2019. Whitehurst also holds a role as a Managing Director at Silver Lake.

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