Michael Cunningham, executive vice president and general counsel of Red Hat Inc. has had a varied career.

Prior to joining Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat in 2004, an open-source software provider, Cunningham was associate general counsel for IBM, where he also served as the lead lawyer for the Business Consulting Services division for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and a partner and associate general counsel of Pricewaterhouse­Coopers, where his duties included global responsibility for the delivery of transactional legal services to Pricewaterhouse­Coopers Consulting.