Josep Garcia is a professional with over 20 years of IT industry experience in a very eclectic number of positions, ranging from analyst/programmer and IT consultant to sales and marketing roles.At Red Hat since 2005, he is currently the Vice President, Partners & Alliances for the Asia Pacific region. Josep's main goal at Red Hat is to build a first class partner ecosystem that can take Red Hat's leading position in the open source IT infrastructure market to customers across all industries and segments.Before taking this position, Josep managed Dell's partnership with Red Hat where he helped drive higher attach rates for Red Hat products to Dell customers across the region.Josep has spent the last 15 years in Asia Pacific, living in Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore and traveling extensively across the region meeting customers and partners.Prior to Red Hat he worked for Oracle, IBM and Lotus Development in several sales and marketing management roles.Josep holds a Masters of Science (MSC) in Computer Science from the Technology University of Barcelona, in his native Spain.