Sacha Labourey founded CloudBees in 2010. Prior to that, he founded the European headquarters for JBoss, Inc. In 2005, he was appointed CTO of JBoss, where he oversaw all of engineering. After Red Hat acquired JBoss in 2006, Sacha remained on as CTO and played a crucial role in integrating  JBoss software with Red Hat's offerings. In 2007, he became co-General Manager of Red Hat’s middleware division, a role he continued in until he left to found CloudBees.