Donald Livingstone - Red Hat Independent Director

Director

Mr. Donald H. Livingstone is Independent Director of Red Hat, Inc. Mr. Livingstone retired in August 2011 from BYUs Marriott School where he had served as a teaching professor since 1994. In addition to his teaching duties, Mr. Livingstone served as director of the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the Marriott School from 1995 until 2007. During 2002 to 2007, Mr. Livingstone served on the board of directors of a number of public and private companies since 2009.
Age 73
Tenure 15 years
Phone919 754-3700
Webwww.redhat.com
Livingstone took a leave of absence from the Marriott School from June 2007 until June 2009 to serve as a mission president in Africa for his church. Prior to joining BYU, Mr. Livingstone had a 29year career with Arthur Andersen LLP that included service as an audit and consulting services partner in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

Red Hat Management Efficiency

Red Hat's management efficiency ratios could be used to measure how well Red Hat manages its routine affairs as well as how well it operates its assets and liabilities.
The company has 423.91 M in debt with debt to equity (D/E) ratio of 24.1, demonstrating that the company may be unable to create cash to meet all of its financial commitments. Red Hat has a current ratio of 1.22, demonstrating that it may have difficulties to pay its financial commitments when the payables are due. Debt can assist Red Hat until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, Red Hat's shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like Red Hat sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for Red to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about Red Hat's use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.

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Red Hat, Inc. provides open source software solutions to develop and offer operating system, virtualization, management, middleware, cloud, and storage technologies to various enterprises worldwide. Red Hat, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Red Hat operates under Software - Application classification in USA and is traded on New York Stock Exchange. It employs 13360 people. Red Hat (RHT) is traded on New York Stock Exchange in USA and employs 13,360 people.

Management Performance

Red Hat Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the Red Hat's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Red Hat inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Red. The board's role is to monitor Red Hat's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Red Hat's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Red Hat's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Richard Sztramko, Chief Medical Officer
Agha Pervez, CFO, Company Secretary
Brian Storseth, Chairman of the Board
Michael Cunningham, Executive VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Arun Oberoi, Executive VP of Global Sales and Services
Alison Laws, CEO
Henry Shelton, Independent Chairman of the Board
Kim Hammonds, Director
Martin Blake, Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
Kevin Murai, Independent Director
Narendra Gupta, Independent Director
Paul Cormier, Interim CTO, Executive VP and President of Products and Technologies
Charlene Begley, Director
Alfred Zollar, Independent Director
Lucas Smithen, Vice President - Products and Professional Services
Travis Baroni, Non-Executive Independent Director
Steve Albrecht, Independent Director
Lisa Crossley, CEO, Director
Donald Livingstone, Independent Director
Sohaib Abbasi, Independent Director
Mitchell Wells, Non-Executive Director
Kimberly Hammonds, Director
William Kaiser, Independent Director
Eric Shander, Principal Accounting Officer
Simon Panton, Non-Executive Director
Eugene Beukman, Director
Bassma Ghali, CTO
James Whitehurst, CEO and President and Director
Jeffrey Clarke, Independent Director
DeLisa Alexander, Executive Vice President Chief People Officer
Frank Calderoni, CFO and Executive VP of Operations
Timothy Pierre, Chief Scientific Officer

Red Stock Performance Indicators

The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right stock is not an easy task. Is Red Hat a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.
Some investors attempt to determine whether the market's mood is bullish or bearish by monitoring changes in market sentiment. Unlike more traditional methods such as technical analysis, investor sentiment usually refers to the aggregate attitude towards Red Hat in the overall investment community. So, suppose investors can accurately measure the market's sentiment. In that case, they can use it for their benefit. For example, some tools to gauge market sentiment could be utilized using contrarian indexes, Red Hat's short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from Red Hat options trading.

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