Ellen Carberry
Director
Financial Services Sector
The China Greentech Initiative
China
Biography
Ellen Carberry is the co-founder and Managing Director of The China Greentech Initiative (CGTI). Carberry brings two decades of experience in commercializing new IT products and services in Asia, China and the U.S., of which the last ten years have been in Beijing. Previously, she was the Vice President of Business Development, Asia Pacific for Red Hat, the leader in open source software. For Red Hat, she launched the Greater China business and established and led Asia-Pacific OEM sales from IBM, Intel and Lenovo. Her experience also includes founding and leading IBM China’s outsourced services for China’s Financial Services Sector. Prior to IBM, she founded and led sales at Mainspring, a venture-backed e-commerce professional services firm acquired by IBM in 2001. She also led business development for the Ziff-Davis Online Network and was a regional sales manager for IBM’s Financial Services Sector in the U.S. She graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in economics and literature.
Research Interest
Red Hat, Software apllications