RALEIGH – Brandon Asbill, a longtime veteran at Red Hat, is moving to nearby Bandwidth to become the communications services provider as its general counsel.
Bandwidth (Nasdaq: BAND) on Wednesday named Asbill to succeed Chris Matton whose departure was announced recently. Asbill joins Bandwidth on Jan. 18.
Asbill worked at Red Hat for 12 years, his last position being vice president and assistant general counsel. He was actively involved in Red Hat’s $34 billion acquiistion by IBM in 2019 and other earlier acquisitions made by the Raleigh-based firm.
“Brandon’s experience scaling a global organization will be invaluable to our team as we enter our next chapter as an international company,” said David Morken, Bandwidth founder and CEO, in a statement. “When Brandon joined Red Hat, the company had approximately 1,100 employees and $280 milion in revenue. During his tenure, they expanded to almost 12,000 employees and $3 billion in revenue, with a presence in more
Bandwidth Welcomes Brandon Asbill as General Counsel
Red Hat veteran brings experience in scaling legal operations for global growth
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RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bandwidth (NASDAQ: BAND), a leading enterprise cloud communications company, announced today that Brandon Asbill has joined the company as General Counsel, effective January 18, 2021.
Asbill brings more than 20 years of broad legal experience to Bandwidth, including corporate governance, securities matters, complex negotiations, data privacy and security, compliance and intellectual property portfolio management. Most recently he spent 12 years with Red Hat, where he served as Vice President & Assistant General Counsel. During his time at Red Hat, Asbill led teams that completed over 20 acquisitions with an aggregate value of more than $1.5 billion and led key aspects of IBM s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, then the largest software acquisiti