Profile: Kari Aakre

posted by Kari Aakre on July 23, 2008

Kari Aakre manages the consumer and social media relations team, responsible for the company’s consumer PR and social media outreach in Intel’s Global Communications Group. She’s worked in PR at Intel for nearly 8 years, covering a variety of areas from enterprise software, Intel’s R&D efforts, to the digital home and launch of Intel Viiv technology brand, WiMAX, as well as the company’s leading silicon technology and manufacturing. Most recently she worked on the media campaign for Intel’s “reinvented transistor” breakthrough for Intel’s 45nm high-k metal gate process technology, and also led the Intel PR outreach around Intel’s $1 billion investment in a new wireless broadband company to be formed via an agreement between Clearwire and Sprint. Prior to joining Intel, Aakre worked at an Oregon-based tech PR agency. She has a journalism degree from the University of Oregon and is based in Portland, Ore.

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