Paul S. Otellini (born October 12, 1950) is Intel Corporation's President and Chief Operating Officer and has served in these roles since 2002, the same year he was elected to the board of directors. In May 2005 he will succeed Craig Barrett as Intel's fifth Chief Executive Officer.

Education

Otellini holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco. He received and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974.

Employment at Intel

Otellini joined Intel in 1974. From 1998 to 2002, he was executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, responsible for the company's microprocessor and chipset businesses and strategies for desktop, mobile and enterprise computing. From 1996 to 1998, Otellini served as executive vice president of sales and marketing and from 1994 to 1996 as senior vice president and general manager of sales and marketing.

Previously, he served as general manager of the Microprocessor Products Group, leading the introduction of the Pentium® microprocessor that followed in 1993. He also managed Intel's business with IBM Corporation, served as general manager of both the Peripheral Components Operation and the Folsom Microcomputer Division, where he was responsible for the company's chipset operations, and served as a technical assistant to then-Intel President Andrew S. Grove.

Otellini was appointed an operating group vice president in 1988, elected as an Intel corporate officer in 1991, made senior vice president in 1993, and promoted to executive vice president in 1996.

External links

• Intel website biography