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Fran Heeran
Red Hat, Vice President & Head of the Global Telco Business at Red Hat
Speaker Bio
With over 30 years’ experience in the software industry and 25 years in the telecom sector, Fran leads the Global Telco organization to accelerate Red Hat’s open source leadership in the telecommunications network environment.
Prior to joining Red Hat, Fran served in executive technology and business executive roles with several globally renowned organizations - including Nokia, Vodafone Group, Alcatel-Lucent, and NEC. He most recently led the Core Networks business at Nokia with responsibility for the company’s end-to-end 5G offerings as well as Nokia’s Cloud Infrastructure portfolio which was transitioned to Red Hat in 2023.