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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by doomlaser on Monday October 09, 2023 @05:22PM (#37825689)
James M. Whitehurst is new CEO, previously at IBM, but originally CEO of Red Hat. He joined IBM after they acquired it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst

He wrote a book about open source software while running Red Hat, The Open Organization: https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book

He is an MBA, but he got his undergraduate degree in CS from Rice.

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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by leviathan303 on Monday October 09, 2023 @05:37PM (#37825840)
His wikipedia article says he got his BS in CS from Rice.
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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by Thorrez on Monday October 09, 2023 @06:18PM (#37826159)
Has the comment been edited? That's exactly what doomlaser said.
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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by monsieurbanana on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @03:19AM (#37829370)
It said Harvard
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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by doomlaser on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @03:31AM (#37829424)
His MBA is from Harvard Business School. Undergrad CS at Rice.
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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by badRNG on Monday October 09, 2023 @06:48PM (#37826416)
Whitehurst went to Rice University for Computer Science
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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by pests on Monday October 09, 2023 @07:32PM (#37826782)
It is true that Whitehurst went to White University for Computer Science and I do not know why we are astroturfing that fact. /s?
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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by justinclift on Sunday October 15, 2023 @09:24PM (#37894995)
> ... originally CEO of Red Hat.

When he joined Red Hat, he was widely known as having turned around Delta Air Lines fortunes.

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