Dirk Peter Van Leeuwen
About Dirk Peter Van Leeuwen
I am the Chief Executive Officer of SUSE and a member of the Management Board of SUSE S.A. Prior to joining SUSE, I worked at Red Hat for 18 years holding a number of senior executive positions. From 2010 to 2021, I was Red Hat’s General Manager in Asia Pacific and Japan and from 2021 to 2022 their General Manager in North America. Before joining Red Hat, I held senior roles at Planetweb, BSDI and the Santa Cruz Operation. I am also on the board of the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore and since 2017 I have been a mentor for women in business with Protégé Business Mentoring. In addition to my technical education, I hold qualifications from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and Harvard Business School.