Pat Gelsinger

Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) Patrick Paul Gelsinger (/ˈɡɛlsɪŋɡər/; born March 5, 1961)[1] is an American business executive and engineer. He was chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel from February 2021 to December 2024. Based mainly in Silicon Valley since the late 1970s, Gelsinger graduated from Stanford University with a master's degree in engineering in 1985 and was the chief architect of Intel's i486 microprocessor in the 1980s. He was Intel's CTO from 2001 to 2009. He left the company in 2009, and was the CEO of VMware and president and chief operating officer (COO) at EMC, before returning to Intel as CEO in February 2021.[2][3][4][5] In 2024, he stepped down as CEO and from the board of directors.[6] Gelsinger was raised on family farms by his parents, June and Paul Gelsinger, in rural Robesonia, in an Amish and Mennonite part of Pennsylvania.[1][7] As a teenager, he received a high score on a Lincoln Tech electronics technology test, winning an early-admission scholarship. He then skipped his final year at Conrad Weiser High School and left home at 16 for college. There he earned the remainder of high school credits for graduation and worked at WFMZ-TV Channel 69 as a technician,[8] while obtaining an associate’s degree from Lincoln Tech in West Orange, New Jersey[9] in 1979. In 1979, at age 18, he moved to Silicon Valley to work at Intel as a quality-control technician.[7][10][1] While at Intel, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, graduating magna cum laude[11] from Santa Clara University in 1983, and then earned a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Stanford University in 1985.[9]