Dr. Gelsinger, who joined Intel in 1979, has over 29 years of experience in technology, general management and product development positions.

From 2005 to present, Dr. Gelsinger is currently a Senior Corporate Vice-President and the general manager for the Digital Enterprise Group. In this role he leads the single largest business group for Intel with over 12,000 employees and over $20B of Revenue. This group includes Intel’s enterprise products including clients (PC’s), Servers (Xeon and Itanium), communications (Embedded and IXP), Visualization and Storage Products. In this capacity he is leading large portion of Intel’s product development and Intel’s turnaround in the enterprise market. Efforts such as Intel’s leadership in bringing vPro™ and CentrionPro™ platform to market, restoring leadership in Xeon™ Products, First quad-core products to market and leading thrust in visualization are direct results of his efforts. Under his leadership, Intel is generally recognized as having restored leadership in all portions of its product line.

From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Gelsinger was Senior Corporate Vice-President and the Chief Technology Office for Intel Corporation. In this capacity he was responsible for the Long Term Technology and Research directions for the corporation. He is also responsible for driving the technology alignment across the various Intel product divisions. He drives standards and industry alignment through a variety of standards efforts and industry activities including the highly successful bi-annual Intel Develop Forum. Dr. Gelsinger was named CTO in September of 2001, the first person in the history of the company to receive this title. During his leadership he drove Intel’s thrust into Wireless including WiFi, WiMax, UWB and CMOS based Radios (overall strategy known as Radio Free Intel). He also drove the efforts in Sensor networks including key technologies like Motes and TinyOS. He also drove low power systems technologies including the launch of low-power IA architecture programs which today have been realized in the in Intel Atom processor family. He has been heavily involved in key standards efforts including TCPA/TCG and the Trusted Platform Module, PCI Express, Home networking including DLNA, Content Protection technologies such as DTCP. He is also well known for his ground breaking efforts in Energy Efficient Computing which when launched in 2001 were quite contrary to the industry direction. He was also quite active in Broadband Policy setting in place the policy framework used by the FCC now known as net neutrality.

From 2000 to 2001 Dr. Pat Gelsinger was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Intel Architecture Group. The Intel architecture group is the largest business unit of the company responsible for mobile, desktop and server platforms. From this position he managed the largest lab and advanced development organization for the company. He drove R+D programs in numerous software and hardware technologies including advanced circuits, signaling, and software. He was responsible for driving key strategies in power reduction, hyper-threading and trusted platforms. In this role he launched key standard efforts covering memory interfaces, processor interconnect, processor extensions and input/output interfaces for most aspects of the IA architecture in mobile, desktop and servers.

From 1996 to April 2000 he ran the desktop product group responsible for all desktop CPUs, chipsets and motherboards for Intel desktop product offerings and the largest revenue business for the company. During this period of time he launched the Intel Developer Forum. The forum, which Dr. Gelsinger continues to oversee, is held spring and fall in US and multiple locations internationally. It has grown in size and reputation and is broadly regarded as the preeminent technology conference of the entire computer and communications industry.

From 1992 to 1996, Pat was instrumental in beginning Intel’s efforts in internet communication products. He led defining and delivering video and audio codec technology and standards in support of the Intel ProShareTM video conferencing product line as well as launching the first, standards-based internet telephony product in the industry.

From 1989 to 1992, Pat was General Manager of the division responsible for the Pentium? Pro, IntelDX2TM, and Intel486TM microprocessor families. During this period he led the creation of the Pentium Pro architecture including key innovations including native multi-processing, backside cache, and dynamic execution He also drove the 80486 DX2 and the Intel486 compaction onto .25u process technology into mass volume production.

From 1986 to 1989 Pat was Design Manager of the Intel486TM microprocessor families. He was recognized as PC Magazine “Person of the Year” for his leadership and contribution to this effort. Before being elevated to design manager, he was the first engineer on the project and the original architect of the 80486 development effort. He architected the 80486 pipeline, the first ever x86 compatible pipelined machine design. Te basic in order machine pipeline he invented remains in use to this day.

Other positions held during Pat’s Intel career include: Director of the Platform Architecture Group, manager of CAD methodologies, and key contributor on the original i386TM and i286 chip design teams. Pat began his career at the company as a Quality and Assurance Technician working on a variety of microprocessor and chipset components.

His promotion to Group Vice President in 1991 at age 32 made him the youngest vice president in the history of the company.

Dr. Gelsinger holds an AA degree from Lincoln Technical Institute (1979), a B.S. Magna Cum Laude from Santa Clara University (1983), and an M.S. from Stanford University (1985). Both degrees are in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Pat was also given an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from William Jessup University (2008).

Pat and his wife Linda have been married 26 years and have four children: Elizabeth 25, Josiah 22, Nathan 20 and Micah 18. Pat has served as an Elder at Singing Hills Christian Church in Hillsboro Oregon from 1996 to 2005. For over 16 years he led a weekly home Bible Study and periodically is an Adult Sunday School Teacher at Singing Hills. He speaks periodically on the subject of being a witness in the workplace and prioritizing career, family and spiritual demands both in the US and internationally.

Pat’s hobbies include skiing, golf, biking and racquetball. He is an avid computer techy who both investigates a broad range of technology as well as experimenting with its applications.

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking and communications products. In 1971, Intel introduced the world’s first microprocessor and sparked a computer revolution that has changed the world. Today, Intel supplies chips, boards, systems, and software to the computing and communications industry and PC users worldwide.