Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager, Office of the CTO, Red Hat
| Follow @lhawthornCollaboration and community management expert Leslie Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating, and enabling open source communities. Currently serving as Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager, Office of the CTO, for Red Hat, she’s best known for creating Google Code-In, the world’s first initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development. Her open source business expertise also includes roles at Google, Elastic, and the Open Source Initiative. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, she now calls Europe home and lives in Amsterdam with her partner and daughter.
