18 Facts About Paul Otellini

Paul Stevens Otellini was an American businessman who served as president and CEO of Intel.

Paul Otellini was on the board of directors of Google.

Paul Otellini graduated from St Ignatius College Preparatory and held a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco earned in 1972.

Paul Otellini received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.

Paul Otellini joined Intel in 1974, doing job-position computer-programmer, marketer, financial-analyst.

Paul 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.

Paul Otellini served as general manager of the Microprocessor Products Group, leading the introduction of the Pentium microprocessor that followed in 1993.

Paul Otellini managed Intel's business with IBM, 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 president Andrew Grove.

Paul Otellini was promoted to executive vice president in 1996.

From 1996 to 1998, Paul 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.

Paul Otellini was considered a departure from the norm as he was the first Intel CEO who was not an engineer.

Paul Otellini is reported to have been a major force in convincing Apple Inc in the Apple-to-Intel transition, and being very fond of Mac OS X, saying Microsoft's Windows Vista is "closer to the Mac than we've been on the Windows side for a long time".

In 2007, Paul Otellini announced plans to build a $3 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in the port city of Dalian, China.

In 2006, Paul Otellini was named Haas Business Leader of the Year.

Nevertheless, in hindsight, Paul Otellini has made the strategic mistake of ignoring the mobile processor market, and did not develop credible technology to counter ARM-based architecture.

On November 19,2012, Paul Otellini announced his intention to retire in May 2013.

Paul Otellini died in his sleep on October 2,2017, at his home in Sonoma County, California.

Paul Otellini was survived by his second wife, of 30 years, Sandy Otellini; his son, Patrick; and his daughter, Alexis.