Paul Otellini | |
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 Otellini in 2010 | |
| Born | (1950-10-12)October 12, 1950 San Francisco,California, U.S. |
| Died | October 2, 2017(2017-10-02) (aged 66) Kenwood, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | St. Ignatius College Preparatory |
| Alma mater | University of San Francisco University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | Ex-President & Ex-CEO ofIntel |
| Predecessor | Craig Barrett |
| Successor | Brian Krzanich |
| Board member of | |
| Website | Paul Otellini[dead link] - Intel.com |
Paul Stevens Otellini (October 12, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American businessman who served as president and CEO ofIntel. He was also on the board of directors ofGoogle.
Otellini was born and raised inSan Francisco,California, United States.[1] His family is ofItalian origin.[1] Otellini graduated fromSt. Ignatius College Preparatory and held a bachelor's degree ineconomics from theUniversity of San Francisco earned in 1972.[1] He received anMBA from theHaas School of Business at theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1974.[1]
Otellini joined Intel in 1974,[2] Otellini was appointed an operating group vice president in 1988, elected as an Intel corporate officer in 1991, and made senior vice president in 1993. He served as general manager of the Microprocessor Products Group, leading the introduction of thePentium microprocessor that followed in 1993.[3] He also managed Intel's business withIBM, 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 presidentAndrew Grove.[4]
He was promoted to executive vice president in 1996. From 1998 to 2002, he was executivevice president andgeneral manager of the Intel Architecture Group, responsible for the company'smicroprocessor andchipset businesses and strategies for desktop, mobile and enterprise computing.[5] 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.[6]
In 2002, he was elected to theboard of directors and became president andChief Operating Officer at the company.[7] On May 18, 2005, he succeededCraig Barrett as the new CEO of Intel.[8] Otellini was considered a departure from the norm as he was the first Intel CEO who was not an engineer.[9]
Otellini is reported to have been a major force in convincingApple Inc. in theApple-to-Intel transition, and being very fond ofMac OS X, sayingMicrosoft'sWindows Vista is "closer to the Mac than we've been on the Windows side for a long time".[10]
In 2006, he oversaw the then-largest round of layoffs in Intel history when 10,500 (or 10% of the corporate workforce) employees were laid-off.[11] Job cuts in manufacturing, product design, and other redundancies, were made in an effort to save $3 billion/year in cost by 2008. Of the 10,500 jobs, 1,000 layoffs were at the management level.[12] In 2007, Otellini announced plans to build a $3 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in the port city ofDalian,China.[13]
In 2006, Otellini was named Haas Business Leader of the Year.[5] Nevertheless, in hindsight, Otellini has made the strategic mistake of ignoring the mobile processor market, and also did not develop credible technology to counter ARM-based architecture. These missteps, combined with missed product cycles under Otellini's successors, would come back to haunt Intel over a decade later.[14]
On November 19, 2012, Otellini announced his intention to retire in May 2013.[15][16]
Otellini died in his sleep on October 2, 2017, at his home in Sonoma County, California.[17][18] He was survived by his second wife, of 30 years, Sandy Otellini; his son, Patrick; and his daughter, Alexis.[19]
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| Preceded by | CEO,Intel 2005–2013 | Succeeded by |
