Mirantis Investor and Former VMware Executive Joins Board of Directors
April 16 2024 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Mike Hayes, managing director at Insight
Partners, brings vast experience
Mirantis, providing organizations with total control over their
strategic infrastructure using open source software, today
announced Mike Hayes, managing director of Mirantis’ investor
Insight Partners, has been named to its board. Hayes was formerly
chief operating officer at VMware.
Prior to VMware, Hayes was senior vice president and head of
strategic operations at IT services company, Cognizant. Hayes is a
former Commanding Officer in the Navy SEALs, was Director of
Defense Policy and Strategy at the National Security Council, and a
White House Fellow working in the Executive Office of both
President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.
“Mike brings years of leadership and industry insight to
Mirantis,” said Alex Freedland, co-founder and CEO, Mirantis. “We
welcome his strategic guidance as we continue helping our customers
navigate the cloud native landscape in this rapidly-shifting
market.”
"Mirantis has demonstrated remarkable leadership enabling
organizations to accelerate their digital transformation journey,”
said Hayes. “I look forward to collaborating with the talented team
to build on the company’s progress and have further impact in the
industry."
Nearly 1,000 customers use Mirantis technologies as a foundation
for their digital transformation initiatives. Today, more than 1
million people use Lens Desktop to make them significantly more
productive when developing and operating Kubernetes applications.
Mirantis Lens and Mirantis Lagoon (from amazee.io) were both
finalists in the InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2023.
About Mirantis
Mirantis helps organizations achieve digital self-determination
by using open source software to provide complete control over
their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent
automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating
virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
Mirantis enables platform teams to deliver a public-cloud
experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge,
with one cohesive cloud platform for complete application and
operations portability, a single pane of glass, and automated
full-stack lifecycle management – all based on open source using
open-standard APIs.
Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises,
including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and
S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
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