Raleigh-based Red Hat, which sells and services the Linux
computer-operating system, hired James Whitehurst, 40, as CEO. The
former chief operating officer at Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines took
over for Matthew Szulik, 51, who will remain as chairman.... Cary-based
Bandwidth.com, which sells phone and data services, hired Matthew
Petzold, 42, as chief financial officer.... Chris Viehbacher, 47,
president of U.S. pharmaceuticals for London-based GlaxoSmithKline and
the drug maker's highest-ranking executive at its U.S. headquarters
in Research Triangle Park, was appointed to its board of directors....
Peter Hermann, 57, was hired as chief executive of the North Carolina
Technology Association. He had been president of Hermann Associates, a
Kansas City consulting company. He replaces Joan Myers, who left in
August for a job at Cary-based software maker SAS Institute.... Guy
Campbell, 61, will retire in June as CEO of Morrisville-based Harris
Stratex, which sells wireless-network equipment. No successor has been
named.
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