Bob St. Clair is a Chief Architect leading Red Hat's IBM Synergy and Alliance team for North America, where he collaborates with sales and technical leadership at Red Hat and IBM to support sales strategy and go-to-market opportunities. A longtime Red Hatter, St. Clair spent most of his time working with public sector customers, building a significant sales engineering team to support all levels of North America's Federal customers.
With 30 years of IT sales and services industry experience, St. Clair's career began as an avionics engineer in the U.S. Navy, where he developed a passion for the customer and mission. He then transitioned to the oil and gas industry, working for upstream companies with large IT infrastructures. A natural connector, St. Clair is passionate about leveraging his many deep relationships to benefit customers.