Please suggest candidates for Intel CEO/leader[s] that you really believe can revamp Intel and realize most or all of potential that lots of us see untapped for so long time. Internal and external, provide their name and rationale why you think they could be up to the task. What I am looking is level like Elon Musk or Jen-Hsun Huang, although neither of them are likely to accept. Are there internal candidates of that class and material even if we take two in one?
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Johnny Srouji from Apple. He is very good at hardware execution and hiring top line talent.
Pat Gelsinger didn't leave due to Larabee, that's ridiculous. As far as I know, nobody was really held accountable for that (fair enough, informed risk taking, etc.).
Pat left for an opportunity to be a CEO. And it wasn't 2 years ago, it was 2009.
If he came back we could legitimately say he's an Intel insider, which we like to promote from. I wouldn't be surprised if the board reached out to him when Paul left, which (if true) means Pat declined.
Stacy Smith or Andy Bryant
Brilliant post.
"All of the superstars have left Intel a long time ago. Nobody good wants to work for this relic. When they were looking for otellini's replacement I bet they contacted several superstars. These guys correctly declined.
The best they could come up with was BK. An operations manager from the fab.
Think about the logic behind that choice."
How about Amir Fainteuch (or however you spell his name), guy from PEG?
Any insider is destined to fail, he rose thru the ranks following the tried and true "intel way". What ever out of box thinking would have been beaten out of him by his bosses.
Look who is at the top, a BS process engineer who rose through the grind it out , pure execution factory side. Why is any one surprised it won't be him that turns the ship. I give BK an A for working hard as well effort but he has never shown any out of box brilliance, feel sad for the future intel, but I will hitch my future on some far more promising company, LOL.
Gelsinger didn't leave.
He was let go for the Larrabee disaster.
Didn't Gelsinger leave Intel two years ago?
I vote Murthy and Diane B.
All of the superstars have left Intel a long time ago. Nobody good wants to work for this relic. When they were looking for otellini's replacement I bet they contacted several superstars. These guys correctly declined.
The best they could come up with was BK. An operations manager from the fab.
Think about the logic behind that choice.
If Sanjay is so great why is GF floundering under his leadership?
Whenever BK speaks I feel like the lights are on but nobody is home.
Gelsinger?
He's another Intel lifer with no vision.
Ditto with Dadi.
Pat Gelsinger would be a strong one
Look up history. Murthy had very little to do with Q's success, especially at QCT. Sanjay Jha was the guy running the show... Things only started to fall apart after Sanjay left...Also, SanJay didn't kill Motorola. Motorola was on life support already after years of setback, bad execution following the Razor. When Sanjay was at the helm, he refocused MM back on Android, and during the brief tenure there was able to make MM competitive against the Koreans and Taiwanese HTC, Samsung, LG. And finally, he was successful in placing MM in Google's hands. Google, on the other hand, was the one that only wanted MM for its I.P. and subsequently decimated MM to place it in the hands of Lenovo.
Ron B adgett
Ron Doe
Pat Gelsinger was the a very good project manager , sharp guy. But I am sceptical he can lead the company through drastic transition. Is he a visionary guy?
After BK/Murthy get their hands dirty with innocent's blood, they will be axed to the cheers of the remaining.
Then the true Messiah will come and save us from darkness.
Hallelujah!
By all means - would like to vote for Pat Gelsimger. It was so sad that PSO let him go. Now after working outside Intel for 7/8 years, he must be truly ready for the top job.
I am Indian but would like see to Pat for the top job instead of Murthy (who was sidelined / dropped by Qcomm)
Mike Splinter, Pat Gelsinger, or Dadi Perlmutter. Many Intel employees thought Splinter lived the grove-era Intel values than any other executive in contention to succeed Barrett.
So everybody concur Brian Krzanich is not suitable for this job?
Pat Gelsinger - I always viewed him as "Mr. Intel"; he was mentored by Grove
Dadi Perlmutter - great executive
Me
So far only serious suggestion here seems to be Pat Gelsinger
Please get more!
Renee James.
Remember when she was seriously considered for CEO. The board must truly f---ed to even entertain such a possibility.
Dadi Perlmutter
Remember hm?
Kim Jong Un
How the hell did the North Koreans get ICBM nukes? We need that kind of Leadership.
Hector is used pony
Three in one Pat, Carl and Jen-Hsun as a dream team
Hector Ruiz
Sanjay Jha the Motorolla killer, who can have straight face with such suggestion unless as previous post suggestion might not be that crazy
Carl Icahn
So he can fire you and sell the remaining pieces to the Asians.
Pat Gelsinger
WARNING, most below posts ARE BOTS from INDIAN MAFIA or paid by similar to push one more Indian
Intel culture is rancid.
You need a miracle to turn it around.
Too slow and bloated to adapt to changing markets.
If Murthy can't do it, no one can.
Funny how you judge Qualcomm on their dropouts (who must have sucked anyways) instead of their performance in the mobile market which was wildly successful.
Perhaps th good engineers are still there.
Murthy is polarizing because of his brash style but you can't argue with his results. Remember he was there for 10 years during the hyper growth phase of smartphones and let Qualcomm to a dominant market position with many competitors - most of which have thrown in the towel.
-mel. To be fair, a lot of Indians at the Q didn't like Murthy either.
My take on Murthy is the following...When he was at Qualcomm, he wasn't really successful in turning Qualcomm around. Qualcomm arguably is not nearly as effed up as Intel. So it's unlikely he's going to be successful here. I think the problem with American companies is that they give way too much credit to executive management to turn the ship around. One individual is not going to make a difference, especially in an engineering company.
Especially in an engineering company, the company needs to listen more to engineers to get ideas on where to go next. The more ideas, the more likely one is find the next "hit". Intel stopped listening and started to try to be a "me too" player that was late to the game.
If I were to have recommended a former exec from Qualcomm, it would have been Sanjay Jha. He would have kicked some serious ass But a lot of people at Intel would have hated him. It would have been a cultural shock (and no, I don't mean he's indian. I mean, his work style is just different).
Judging by number of Murthy biased replies here, could it be possible that either number of Indians are "bots" from Intel or it could be even internal Indian gang, does it look suspicious or what?