Steve Albrecht - Red Hat Independent Director

Dr. W. Steve Albrecht is Independent Director of Red Hat, Inc. Dr. Albrecht, who previously served on our Board from April 2003 through June 2009, is the Gunnell Endowed Professor and a Wheatley Fellow at Brigham Young Universitys Marriott School of Management . Dr. Albrecht also served as a mission president in Japan for his church from July 2009 through July 2012. Dr. Albrecht, a certified public accountant, certified internal auditor and certified fraud examiner, joined BYU in 1977 after teaching at Stanford University and the University of Illinois and served as Associate Dean of the Marriott School at BYU from 1998 until July 2008. Prior to becoming a professor, he worked as an accountant for Deloitte Touche. Dr. Albrecht currently serves on the board of directors of Cypress Semiconductor Corporationrationration, a semiconductor design and manufacturing company, and SkyWest, Inc., the holding company of SkyWest Airlines, a regional airline company. He previously served on the board of directors of SunPower Corporationrationration, a solar panel design and manufacturing company, from 2005 to 2012. He is the past president of the American Accounting Association and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is a former trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation that oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and a former trustee of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations, the organization that designed the internal control framework used by nearly all public companies and other organizations. since 2011.