SUSE Names Melissa Di Donato New CEO

'Melissa Di Donato, SAP's former COO, has been named SUSE's new CEO.
ZDNet reports:

London-based Di Donato is a well-known technology leader. In
particular, she has a proven track record in sales and business
operations. Besides being SAP's COO, she was also the company's chief
revenue officer. In SAP's latest quarter, SAP saw an increase of 11%
year-over-year revenues. Much of that came from the cloud -- where SAP
saw 40% year-over-year growth. SAP's cloud is built on SUSE's Linux
servers and OpenStack cloud.

Di Donato succeeds Nils Brauckmann. While officially Brauckmann is
retiring, there seems to be more to the story. On LinkedIn, Brauckmann
wrote: "I care very deeply for the SUSE business and its employees,
and this difficult decision is based entirely on personal reasons. I
am pleased to be handing over the reins to such a talented and
accomplished leader as Melissa Di Donato." In his SUSE statement,
Brauckman added: "She is a proven and dynamic change agent, and many
of her achievements have occurred in subscription businesses that
exist in high-growth cloud environments."

In April, then-CEO Nils Brauchmann said his company would soon be the
largest independent Linux company. This comes after Brauckmann
delivered eight years of continuous expansion during his tenure,
including record-breaking revenues in FY18, reports ZDNet.

"Under Di Donato's leadership, SUSE will continue to focus on growth
and expansion. What that means is she's expected to advance SUSE's
core business and emerging technologies, both organically and through
add-on acquisitions."'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/07/22/2038259

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