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Mike Evans

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VP, Technical Business Development at Red Hat
📍 Berkeley, California, United States

Mike Evans is the VP of Technical Business Development at Red Hat, where he has driven strategic partnerships since 2008 in areas like AI/ML, containers, and cloud-native technologies. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan and previously founded Bluecurve, a software company acquired by Red Hat.

He is passionate about the open-source community, serving as an advisor for AI companies like OpenTeams and Neural Magic. Mike also contributes to educational causes, having served as Red Hats representative on the board for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a project to create low-cost laptops for developing nations.

Unique fact: He founded a venture-backed software company that was later acquired by his current employer, Red Hat.

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Experience
30 Years
Current Role
VP, Technical Business Development
Job Level
Senior
Location
Berkeley, California, United States
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Priorities

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AI/ML Evolution
His work focuses on AI/ML technologies. He advises AI startups like OpenTeams and Neural Magic and frequently posts about AI inference, LLMs, and PyTorch.
Open Source Ecosystems
A long-time Red Hat leader, he is an advisor at OpenTeams (Open Source AI) and was a board member for the open-source-based One Laptop Per Child project.
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Career

Work history

5-2000
VP, Technical Business Development
Red Hat
8-2025
Advisor
OpenTeams
5-2023 - 1-2025
Advisor
Neural Magic
Board Member- Red Hat representative
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
5-1995 - 5-2000
Founder - VP, Sales & Business Development
Bluecurve
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Media appearances

Mike Evans, Red Hat | Google Cloud Next 2019 - theCUBE. Featured in theCUBE
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AWS re:Invent 2021 | Red Hat | Manu Parbhakar & Mike Evans. Featured in Cube365 (AWS re:Invent)
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Education
1979 - 1983
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Ann Arbor
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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