Patrick Gelsinger

Patrick Gelsinger

Chief Executive Officer

Patrick (Pat) Gelsinger is Chief Executive Officer of Intel Corporation and serves on its board of directors. On Feb. 15, 2021, Mr. Gelsinger returned to Intel, the company where he had spent the first 30 years of his career.

Before rejoining Intel, Mr. Gelsinger was CEO of VMware. In that role, he transformed VMware into a recognized global leader in cloud infrastructure, enterprise mobility and cyber security. Mr. Gelsinger was also ranked the best CEO in America in 2019, according to an annual survey by Glassdoor. Prior to joining VMware in 2012, Mr. Gelsinger was President and Chief Operating Officer of EMC’s Information Infrastructure Products business.

Mr. Gelsinger began his career in 1979 at Intel, becoming its first Chief Technology Officer, and also serving as Senior Vice President and the General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group. He managed the creation of key industry technologies such as USB and Wi-Fi. He was the architect of the original 80486 processor, led 14 microprocessor programs and played key roles in the Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® processor families, leading to Intel becoming the preeminent microprocessor supplier.

James (Jim) J. Goetz

James (Jim) J. Goetz

Partner, Sequoia Capital

James J. Goetz joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in November 2019. Mr. Goetz is an independent director.

He has served as a Partner of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, since June 2004. Prior to joining Sequoia, Mr. Goetz co-founded VitalSigns Software, where he assembled and led the team that pioneered end-user performance management. Prior to VitalSigns, he was Vice President of Network Management for Bay Networks. Mr. Goetz currently serves on the boards of several privately held companies, and since April 2005, on the board of Palo Alto Networks Inc., a network security solution company.

Mr. Goetz previously served on the boards of directors of Barracuda Networks Inc., a data security and storage company from 2009 to 2017; Nimble Storage Inc., a data storage company, from 2007 to 2017; Jive Software Inc., a provider of social business software, from 2007 to 2015; and Ruckus Wireless Inc., a manufacturer of wireless (Wi-Fi) networking equipment, from 2012 to 2015, among others.

Mr. Goetz holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Andrea Goldsmith

Andrea Goldsmith

Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Engineering, Princeton University

Dr. Andrea J. Goldsmith joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in September 2021. Dr. Goldsmith is an independent director.

She serves as Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. Prior to joining Princeton, Dr. Goldsmith was the Stephen Harris Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty from 1999 to 2020. In 2010, Dr. Goldsmith co-founded and served as the Chief Technology Officer at Plume (formerly Accelera Inc.), a provider of software-defined wireless networking technology. In 2005, Dr. Goldsmith co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer for Quantenna Communications (formerly mySource Communications Inc.), a producer of silicon chipsets designed for high-speed, wireless networking.

Dr. Goldsmith has served since 2019 on the board of directors of Medtronic and since 2018 on the board of Crown Castle International Corp., both public companies. She also serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) with the current White House administration. Dr. Goldsmith is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Founding Chair of the IEEE board of directors Committee on Diversity, Inclusion and Ethics.

Alyssa Henry

Alyssa Henry

Square Chief Executive Officer, Block, Inc.

Alyssa H. Henry joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in January 2020. Ms. Henry is an independent director. 

She has served as Chief Executive Officer of Square, a technology company that helps sellers more easily run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce, staff, customer, and banking solutions, for Block Inc. (formerly Square Inc.), a provider of software, hardware, and financial services for small businesses and individuals, since February 2023, and as Square Lead and Block Infrastructure and Information Security Lead from December 2021 to February 2023 where she led Square, inclusive of product development and go-to-market, and Block’s technical infrastructure and information security. Ms. Henry was also Seller Lead for Square from 2014 to December 2021. She oversaw global engineering, product management, design, sales, marketing, partnerships, and support for Square’s seller facing software and financial services products.

Prior to Square, Ms. Henry served in a variety of leadership positions with Amazon.com, Inc., from 2006 to 2014, including as Vice President of Amazon Web Services Storage Services, where she led services including Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon Lambda; and as Amazon’s Director of Software Development for Ordering, with responsibility for Amazon’s ordering workflow software and databases. Before Amazon, Ms. Henry spent 12 years at Microsoft Corporation, working on databases and data access technologies in various engineering, program management, and product unit management roles.

Ms. Henry started her career as a developer in the financial services industry. She has served as a member of the board of directors of Confluent Inc., a data infrastructure software company, since May 2021. She previously served on the board of Unity Software Inc., a video game software development company.

Omar Ishrak

Omar Ishrak

Former Chairman of the Board, Medtronic

Dr. Omar Ishrak joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in March 2017 and was named Chair of the Board in January 2020. Dr. Ishrak stepped down as Chair in January 2023 and remains on the Board as an independent director.

Dr. Ishrak was Executive Chairman of Medtronic plc, a global medical technology company until his retirement in December 2020. Dr. Ishrak served as Chairman and CEO of Medtronic from June 2011 to April 2020. Prior to joining Medtronic, Dr. Ishrak spent 16 years in various roles with General Electric Co., most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare Systems, a division of GE Healthcare.

Dr. Ishrak is a member of the board of trustees of the Asia Society, which promotes mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. He is also a member of the Minnesota Public Radio board of trustees.

Dr. Ishrak earned a Bachelor of Science degree and a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from the University of London, King’s College.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PIK Population Health and Health Equity Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in March 2018. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey is an independent director.

She was the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PIK Professor of Population Health and Health Equity at the University of Pennsylvania from 2018 to 2021. From 2003 to 2017, Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest U.S. philanthropy organization dedicated to health.

Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey is a member of the boards of directors of General Electric Company, Merck & Co., and Better Therapeutics, Inc., and previously served as a director at Genworth Financial Inc., Beckman Coulter Inc., and Hess Corporation. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The American Philosophical Society, Chair of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and received her Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School.

Tsu-Jae King Liu

Tsu-Jae King Liu

Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in July 2016. Dr. Liu is an independent director.

She serves as Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Liu is the first woman to hold that position at UC Berkeley.

Dr. Liu holds over 90 patents and has received numerous awards for her research, including the Intel Outstanding Researcher in Nanotechnology Award (2012) and the SIA University Researcher Award (2014). Currently, her research is focused on nanometer-scale logic and memory devices, and advanced materials, process technology and devices for energy-efficient electronics.

Barbara G. Novick

Barbara G. Novick

Co-Founder, Former Vice Chairman, and Senior Advisor, BlackRock, Inc.

Barbara G. Novick joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in December 2022. Ms. Novick is an independent director.

She co-founded BlackRock Inc. in 1988 and continued as its Vice Chairman until February 2021 when she transitioned to Senior Advisor. From 1988 to 2009, Ms. Novick headed the Global Account Management Group at BlackRock and oversaw global business development, marketing and client service across equity, fixed income, liquidity, alternative investment and real estate products for institutional and individual investors and their intermediaries worldwide. In 2009, she established BlackRock’s Global Government Relations and Public Policy Group to provide a voice for investors, which she headed until 2021; and from 2018 to 2020, she additionally oversaw BlackRock’s Global Investment Stewardship team.

Ms. Novick has served since 2021 on the private company board of directors of New York Life Insurance Co., a mutual insurance company She also serves on the boards of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, 100 Women in Finance, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, and on the advisory boards of GrowthCurve Capital, a private equity firm; the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership; and the Center for Financial Stability.

Ms. Novick earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Economics from Cornell University. She has authored numerous articles on asset management and public policy issues and over her career received numerous awards and accolades, including Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance in 2020 and Fixed Income Analysts Society’s (FIASI) Hall of Fame in 2023.

Gregory D. Smith

Gregory D. Smith

Former Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Enterprise Operations,The Boeing Company

Gregory D. Smith joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in March 2017. Mr. Smith is an independent director.

He is the president and founder of Sea3 Ent LLC, an investment company, and was Executive Vice President of Enterprise Operations and Chief Financial Officer at The Boeing Company, the world’s largest aerospace company and one of the largest U.S. exporters, until his retirement in July 2021.

Mr. Smith led Boeing’s Enterprise Operations, Finance and Strategy organization. In this role, Mr. Smith managed the company’s overall financial activities, and drove operational excellence by overseeing the company’s manufacturing, operations, supply chain, quality, and program management functions. Mr. Smith was also responsible for the delivery of enterprise services across the company and oversaw the company’s strengthened focus on sustainability. In addition, Mr. Smith had executive responsibility for the company’s global financing arm Boeing Capital Corporation and oversaw the company’s corporate audit function, which reported directly to the board of directors.

Mr. Smith has three decades of in-depth global aerospace experience across Commercial Airplanes; Defense, Space & Security; and corporate headquarters. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2011 and later served in an expanded role as the Executive Vice President of Finance, Enterprise Performance and Strategy. He previously was Corporate Controller and Vice President of Finance, serving as the company's principal interface with the board of directors' audit committee to ensure regulatory compliance.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Smith was Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis, leading business plan development, financial forecasting, financial analysis, and capital commitment planning, as well as competitive analysis and benchmarking. Prior to 2008, Mr. Smith served for four years as Vice President of Global Investor Relations at Raytheon, and before Raytheon, he held key leadership roles in supply chain, factory operations, finance, and program management at Boeing.

Mr. Smith joined the American Airlines board of directors in January 2022.  He also serves on the board of directors of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Foundation and Northwestern Memorial Healthcare.

Stacy J. Smith

Stacy J. Smith

Executive chairman of Kioxia Corp. and chair of Autodesk Inc.

Stacy Smith, executive chairman of Kioxia Corp. and chair of Autodesk Inc., joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in March 2024. He is an independent director. 

Smith has served since 2018 as executive chairman and director at Kioxia, a flash memory and solid-state drive company that was formerly Toshiba Memory Corp.  

Prior to his retirement in 2018, Smith spent nearly 30 years at Intel in a range of leadership roles. He served as the group president of manufacturing, operations and sales, leading the company’s global Technology and Manufacturing Group and its worldwide sales organization. He also spent more than a decade in finance leadership roles, including as chief financial officer. In addition, Smith held the role of chief information officer and was general manager of Intel Europe, Middle East and Africa, where he was responsible for sales and marketing across that region.  

Smith has served as chairman of the board of Autodesk since 2011 and has served on the board of Wolfspeed since 2023. Smith previously served on the board of directors for Virgin America from 2014 to 2016 and Gevo Inc. from 2010 to 2014. 

Smith earned an MBA in finance from the University of Texas. 

Lip-Bu Tan

Lip-Bu Tan

Former Executive Chair and CEO, Cadence Design Systems Inc.

Lip-Bu Tan joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in September 2022.

Mr. Tan served as Executive Chair of the board of directors of Cadence Design Systems Inc., a computational software company providing solutions used to design and develop complex semiconductor chips and electronic systems, from December 2021 to May 2023, and as a member of its board since 2004; he was the company’s Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2021, and its President from 2009 to 2017. Mr. Tan is also the Chair of Walden International, the venture capital firm he founded in 1987, and is the Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures. In addition to his role on Cadence’s board, Mr. Tan serves on the boards of Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. and Schneider Electric SE.

He previously served on the boards of SoftBank Group Corp. from 2020 to 2022; Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. from 2015 to 2021; Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China (AMEC), a global semiconductor microfabrication equipment company, from 2005 to 2020; and Flextronics International Ltd. from 2003 to 2012. At Carnegie Mellon University, he serves on the board of trustees and the School of Engineering Dean’s Council; and at the University of California Berkeley, he serves on the Engineering Advisory Board (EAB), and their Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) Advisory Board.

Tan holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a Master of Science in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the University of San Francisco. He is the recipient of Imec’s 2023 Lifetime of Innovation Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award and Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) 2016 Dr. Morris Chang's Exemplary Leadership Award.

Dion Weisler

Dion Weisler

Former President and CEO, HP Inc.

Dion J. Weisler joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in June 2020. Mr. Weisler is an independent director.

He is a member of the boards at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and BHP.

From 2015 to 2019, Mr. Weisler served as President and Chief Executive Officer of HP Inc., a computer, printer, and related supplies technology company. Mr. Weisler also served as a member of HP’s board of directors from 2015 to May 2020. His prior experience includes senior executive roles at HP and Lenovo Group Inc., where he was responsible for various operations in Asia Pacific and globally. Mr. Weisler also served in management positions with Telstra Corp. Ltd., a telecommunications company, and Acer Inc.

Mr. Weisler holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computing (BASc) and an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from Monash University.

Frank D. Yeary

Frank D. Yeary

Independent Chair of the Board
Managing Member, Darwin Capital Advisors, LLC

Frank D. Yeary joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in March 2009 and was named Chair of the Board in January 2023. Mr. Yeary is an independent director.

He is Managing Member at Darwin Capital Advisors, LLC, a private investment firm, and was Executive Chairman of CamberView Partners, LLC, a corporate advisory firm, until 2018. Prior to this time, Mr. Yeary was Vice Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and before that spent 25 years in the finance industry, including as Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and as a member of the Management Committee at Citigroup Investment Banking.

Mr. Yeary also serves on the board of directors of PayPal Holdings, Mobileye Global Inc., an autonomous driving technology Intel subsidiary, and a number of private companies.