Paul Cormier is a Senior Operating Partner at Francisco Partners. Based in Boston, he joined the firm in 2022.

He has a B.S. from Fitchburg State University and an M.S. in Software Development from Rochester Institute of Technology.

In 21+ years at Red Hat, Paul has driven much of the company's open hybrid cloud strategy, playing an instrumental role in expanding Red Hat's portfolio to a full, modern IT stack based on open-source innovation. He has led efforts to introduce the company’s enterprise subscription model, leading to the development of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and pioneered a hybrid cloud platform that played an instrumental role in IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat in 2019.