897: Satisfying a Growth Appetite | Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat Software
Last October, when it was announced that Bobby Leibrock would become the next CFO of IBM subsidiary Red Hat, finance team members no doubt understood that the open-source developer was coronating not just any IBM veteran but a strategic finance executive who for years had been entrenched along the front lines of IBM’s software acquisition activities.
Leibrock’s M&A resume began around 2006, when IBM acquired content management software developer FileNet for $1.6 billion.
“They asked me to be what was known as a ‘product pricer,’ a role that involved figuring out how to merge FileNet’s…
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