Biography: Paul S. Otellini

Episode 502:
SAFEGUARDING THE FUTURE:
Heroes and Villains of the Computer Age

Featured Guest:
Paul S. Otellini
President & CEO
Intel Corporation

Mr. Otellini's Video Clip


Paul S. Otellini is president and chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, becoming the company's fifth CEO on May 18, 2005.

Otellini previously served as Intel's president and chief operating officer, positions he held since 2002, the same year he was elected to Intel's board of directors.

Joining Intel in 1974, Otellini has held a number of other positions during his career. 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 1992 to 1998, Otellini served as executive vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group. 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 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, now the immediate past-chairman of Intel.

Otellini received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco in 1972, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.