Rajesh will work closely with all business units to advance the open source benefits of cloud IT to meet customer needs in India, the company said in a statement.
Commenting on this appointment, Red Hat Asia Pacific senior vice president and general manager Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen said: "Rajesh's appointment will further add to the value of the Red Hat management team in APAC, and especially in India as it grows as a key market for open source.
I am confident that he will be able to drive and advance our strong portfolio of Asia-Pacific and India clients."
While at Cisco, he was responsible for driving the datacenter and visualisation strategy in India, a key focus area in cloud and datacenter transformation across services providers and enterprise customers.
Before Cisco, Rajesh spent 11 years with Sun Microsystems in various leadership roles.