Leadership
Keith Basil
Secretary
NSU Research & Innovation Foundation
Biography
Keith Basil is Vice President and General Manager of SUSE’s Edge business unit, where he directs product management, strategy, and marketing for a portfolio that has delivered significant year-over-year growth. He previously served as Vice President of Cloud Native Infrastructure at SUSE, shaping the strategic direction of Rancher’s cloud-native products and driving edge solutions for cluster management, heterogeneous architectures, and zero-trust security at scale.
Before SUSE, Basil led product management and security business strategy within Red Hat’s Cloud Platforms business unit, where his foundational work included designing a secure, high-performance cloud architecture serving U.S. public sector civilian agencies and contractors. He is also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fourth Cloud. With more than twenty years in cloud computing, Basil holds a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from Norfolk State University.