Bill Calder is a corporate communications manager with a long history developing PR and communications strategies around various Intel technologies and initiatives. He has been with Intel for 14yrs serving in public affairs and corporate communications and always with an eye on the media. Calder has worked on a variety of projects over the years from Intel’s initial move into consumer electronics, to mobile technology, networking, silicon manufacturing, environmental health and safety, and more. Recently Calder was instrumental in developing the strategy and the communications behind the announcement of the Intel® Atom™ processor brand and for establishing a new category of low-cost devices based on Atom known as “netbooks” and “nettops.”
Prior to joining Intel, Calder worked in the U.S. Senate as press secretary to Senator Mark O. Hatfield. Prior to that, he spent several years as a journalist working for the Portland Oregonian and the Eugene Register-Guard.
Director, Product and Technology Media Relations
Global Communications Group
Bill Kircos is director of Intel Corporation’s product and technology-related public relations efforts, overseeing the company’s consumer and enterprise processors and brands (Core™, Atom™, Pentium™, Xeon®, Centrino® and others), mobile and wireless businesses and manufacturing and R&D efforts. He has been with Intel in a public relations capacity for twelve years and has almost 20 years of experience in the PR and communications fields. Kircos has also been a lead communications manager for the department’s social media outreach since 2005.
Prior to joining Intel, Kircos worked for the state of Arizona’s Governor’s Office as a Communications Officer, overseeing several government programs ranging from child support and protective services to employment and welfare. Preceding this position, he worked as an executive account manager with two leading public relations agencies based in Phoenix, Arizona representing clients in the real estate, technology and financial sectors. He has a journalism degree from the University of Arizona.
I’m a Digital Strategist focused on social and emerging media, currently serving as the cirriculum architect for the Digital IQ digital education program and a founding member of the Intel Social Media Center of Excellence.
At Intel, I helped to pioneer social media techniques that laid the foundations for Intel to leverage Web 2.0. I designed and built this external blog at http://blogs.intel.com, establishing the infrastructure, legal, security and publishing guidelines that integrated social media into Intel’s marketing mix.
I led a 4-year research project with MIT that researched online trust and digital marketing strategies. My Intel and MIT researchers designed innovative approaches to increase user confidence and trust in online media experiences. I’m also the designer of the Intel Download Center and many highly-trafficked sections of Intel’s web systems.
I’ve presented on digital innovation and social media at the Yale Center for Customer Insights, MIT Center for Digital Business, Innotech, SxSW Interactive, the Marketing Sciences Institute, the Experiential Marketing Summit, to name a few.
Adjunct faculty at Portland State University, I also sit on the Executive Board of the Internet Strategy Forum, the Center for Consumer Research at St. Joseph’s University, the Marketing Advisory Track at Northeastern University and a member of the City Club of Portland.
Connie Brown is a media relations manager for Intel Corporation's mobile products and technology efforts. She has been with Intel in communications and marketing roles for 8 years and has 19 years of experience in communications fields. She has a journalism degree in news writing and public relations from the University of Northern Colorado.
Outside of working on the latest greatest Intel mobile technology Brown is suburban soccer mom of 4. She can also be found reading, running, and logging into Twitter (cmbrown39) or Facebook.
Dan Snyder is a technical PR manager specializing in consumer usages of the PC. He has been with Intel since 1991. In his current role based in Santa Clara, California, Dan works with technical journalists worldwide to promote Intel’s latest technologies, such as the Intel® Core™ i7 processor family. He has logged hundreds of hours of print, radio and on-air television interviews.
Prior to this position Dan was European developer relations manager for audio and video on the PC, working with the top software and hardware developers in Europe. Based in Munich, Germany, he helped enable customers to deliver and promote fun PC usages such as home music recording, personal video editing, digital photography, etc.
Dan began his career with Intel in an engineering role at one of the company’s largest fabrication and assembly factories in Arizona. In 1994, he moved into a Technical Marketing position in Santa Clara involving Intel’s processors for mobile computers. From 1996 to 1999 Dan drove worldwide marketing initiatives with OEMs and Retailers for the Pentium® Processor family of products before moving to Europe for his role there.
Dan holds an Engineering degree from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford.
Don is a Senior Applications Engineer in Intel’s NAND Solutions Group and has worked with nonvolatile storage technologies since 1988. Don helped pioneer flash memory as BIOS storage in desktops and mobile systems as well as defining a new flash memory part used in these applications. While in Japan in 1995, Don helped advance flash memory usage in digital photgrapy and digital audio. He then worked for the field as a Regional Application Specialist supporting Embedded Intel Architecture, a desktop Technical Sales Manager for the Intel P4 Launch and a Storage Architecture Specialist. Don currently provides EMEA SSD Application support, directs the NSG SSD Tools Support and manages the NSG SSD demo development. Don is active in working with the local Boy Scout Troop as well as training Boy Scout adult leaders, supports the local recreational and high school swim team computer operations and when possible plays guitar and bass.
Esther is currently working in Intel Research as their Proliferation Manager and has worked for Intel for over 20 years. She joined the Intel ASIC start up in 1987 in the CAD Engineering department. Esther has over six years experience in Technology Manufacturing Engineering supporting Intel’s high volume manufacturing community. She was a member of the Pudong, Shanghai, China factory startup team. Esther was a member of the virtual Corporate Site Selection team conducting research for where Intel should invest in new factories and locations. Esther was a conference steering committee member session chair for Intel’s Manufacturing Excellence Conference for six years – driving operational excellence into the global manufacturing community. She was assigned to the Intel Online Services Operations Management team in 1999, a new global data centre business for Intel.
In 2002 Esther joined Information Technology and completed an assignment to Shanghai to establish a culture of systemic innovation and start up the China Innovation Centres. Esther is an Eisenhower Fellow. In 1997 she was the first US Eisenhower Fellow to Ireland and spent six weeks in the Irish region studying foreign direct investment and its impact on local industries. She later presented her findings to former President George H.W. Bush. Esther was appointed Economic Advisor to the Jieyang Municipal Government, Guangdong, PRC for a 5 year term commencing Dec. 2006. As advisor to the Asia Capital Forum – Nanchang Summit – she provided advice to the mayors of six cities representing 24 million people.
Esther holds a BSc Dual Major in Design and Design Engineering Technology from Brigham Young University funded by dance scholarships, and a Master’s Degree in International Management with honors in Political Science and Language (Mandarin) from The Thunderbird School of Global Management. Esther enjoys learning about new cultures and languages.
I grew up in Australia, moving between the working class suburbs of Melbourne and Canberra and the Aboriginal communities of Central and Northern Australia. As a kid, I thought I would grow up to be a fire fighter or a dentist or a barrister or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister of Australia. I never imagined I would end up here – in America, with a PhD in anthropology, working for a multi-national corporation, making sense of people’s every day practices, helping innovate new technologies and new technology paradigms. But maybe it isn’t such a big stretch. My mother is anthropologist, my father an engineer – perhaps this is just what I was supposed to be doing all along.
I joined Intel in 1998 – a moment of irrational exuberance all around – fresh out of Stanford, with a newly minted PhD in cultural anthropology and a strong expertise in Native American ethno-history. It was an odd match from the very beginning. Yet more than eight years, countless fieldtrips, at least one patent, lots of publications, and many many meetings later, I am still here and still doing work that I find challenging, rewarding, frustrating and thoroughly engaging.
I am currently the Director of User Experience within Intel’s Digital Home Group where I manage an inter-disciplinary team of social scientists, interaction designers and human factors engineers. We strive to stay ahead of Intel’s technology roadmap, using insights gained for in-depth ethnographic and design research to help drive innovations in and around Intel platforms, creating technology that responds to human needs, desires and aspirations.
When I get a chance, I still do fieldwork, and I remain particularly interested in issues of cultural difference as they are expressed around technology adoption, use and occasional rejection. Most recently, I have been thinking about ‘domestic satellites’ – places that we make into home like spaces (i.e.: dorm rooms, hotel rooms, caravans, RVs, second and vacation homes), the intersections of technology and spiritual/religious practices, and the ways in which magic functions as a metaphor for technology innovation.
Gregory Ofili currently serves as a Marketing Manager in Intel’s WiMAX Program Office, and Vice Chair of the Marketing Working Group in the WIMAX Forum. Prior to his current roles, Greg functioned as lead WiMAX strategist at Earthlink, as well as founder and CEO of Airelink Wireless, an innovative wireless broadband service provider with operations in the US & Eastern Europe.
From 2000 to 2004, Greg held a number of product and business development roles in Cisco Systems, culminating with a role in the influential Executive Thought Leadership group. Prior to year 2000, Greg held network engineering and network operations roles with leading service providers, including as Senior Engineer at Cox Communications, & Voice Network Engineer at MCI (acquired by Verizon).
Greg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration.
In March 2005, Greg was profiled in Savoy Professional Magazine as an innovative Telecommunications entrepreneur
Jay currently works as Training and Events Program Manager in Intel’s Software and Solutions Group (SSG).
He has held a variety of positions since joining Intel in 1991, including Program Manager for Indeo™ Video technology in the Multimedia Software Technology Group and Technical Marketing Engineer at Intel Architecture Labs, where he worked on technologies such as the Portable Media Player (1st gen MP3 player), Intel Video Phone, Intel Microscope, Intel cameras and much more. Jay then moved to a Business Development role within the Intel Communications Group, where he worked with third parties developing Advanced TCA communications blade servers.
What does Jay like best about working at Intel? The amazing number of smart and talented coworkers; the recognition of diversity and the value that it brings; and the remarkable array of technologies, programs and initiatives that are active at any given point in time.
Jeff Galinovsky is currently a Regional Manager for Intel’s classmate PC activities in North America where he focuses on expanding EMPG’s education products there as well as building an education ecosystem around classmate PCs. He is also very involved in his 2 daughter’s education and you may even see his older 10 year old daughter, Mackenzie, with him at Intel events as she is an avid classmate PC user! Additionally, Jeff was just recently appointed as a Board of Director to a newly created Education Foundation for the Folsom-Cordova Unified School District focusing on technology and developing programs for 21st century skills.
Jeff has been at Intel for over sixteen years where he has held several positions in Engineering and Management including; CPU Product Development, Software Development, Software Engineering Management, Strategic Program Management, Strategic Marketing, and Platform Management. Most recently Jeff has spent the last four years working (and traveling the world) on developing and bringing to market unique platforms for Education Markets. Jeff holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toledo and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California at Davis. Jeff also teaches MBA classes to working professional students at a local University.
Joe works under the direction of Intel’s CTO Justin Rattner, and leads future architecture research. One of the most enjoyable long distance flights I had was with Joe. We ended up on the same flight, having an insightful conversation on technology, history, philosophy and antique cameras. Suddenly we were landing in Frankfurt. We also know who skis better than Joe. His blog starting point will be Tera Scale computing.
Johnny joined Intel in 2001 through Intel’s acquisition of Xircom. He has held various marketing positions within Intel and now works at Intel Capital as Marketing and Events Manager for EMEA. Intel Capital is Intel’s global investment organization and makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing, and cleantech.
Previous to Intel, Johnny worked as a portal and community manager at Yucom (a joint venture between BT and the ING group), and at Xircom as product manager and marketing specialist.
Johnny’s interests span from (online) marketing to cutting edge technology and blogging.
For more information on Intel Capital, visit www.intelcapital.com.
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.
Kelin J. Kuhn is an Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group and director of Advanced Device Technology. Kuhn is responsible for device architecture path finding for Intel's advanced process technologies.
Kuhn joined Intel in 1997 working on Intel's 0.35 micron process technology. Since then, Kuhn has been involved in Intel's manufacturing process technology development for the 0.35 um, 130nm, 90nm, 45nm and 22nm technology nodes.
Previously, Kuhn was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. Kuhn is the past recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award for her work on strained layer III-V materials and an Intel IAA award for her work on Hi-K metal gate transistors. Kuhn has six patents with four others pending, is the author of more than 60 technical papers, and has authored a textbook on laser engineering.
Kuhn earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 1980. Kuhn received her master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1985.
Kelly Ripley Feller is a social media addict and outspoken proponent of change and marketing evolution. She currently works as a social media strategist for Intel challenged with developing social media related programs and guidelines across the company.
In her past she’s been one of those marketing chicks and booth babes, working in industries such as non-profit, natural foods, healthcare, and high technology. She has worked with a variety of technology companies including Intel, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Intuit, SAS Software, Symantec, and IBM.
In addition to her day job she also writes and speaks at conferences about social media, marketing, business, Second Life, and politics. An enthusiastic live music lover and classical singer, Kelly performs at local schools and senior homes and is a hospice volunteer for veterans. She holds a BA in Communications and Political Science from the University of Michigan.
You can find her on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/kellyrfeller.
I’m a writer and producer with a background in broadcasting. I joined Intel in 2000 from KRON-TV, the former NBC affiliate in San Francisco, CA.
The corporate communications team put me to work on sharing stories about products, research and people behind technology innovation. The truth is…I use this gig just to meet fascinating people and test out new technologies inside Intel!
Here are some places where you can see videos and audio stories we create: Channel Intel on YouTube, the Intel Pressroom and on the Intel Podcast channel.
You can follow my discoveries about people and technology on my personal blog “Movin’ Ahead”, on Facebook and Twitter.
I joined Intel in 1976 after completing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University (and after an M.S. there and a B.S. in Math from Manhattan College in my hometown of New York). I would never have predicted then that over 3 decades later I would still be at Intel, which was then a very small semiconductor company. However, the work and the challenges here always stayed interesting and over the years I have gotten to reinvent myself technically a number of times, from OS guy to general software architect to processor architect and for the last decade or so to communications. I am now an Intel Senior Fellow and Director of the Communications Technology Lab, a corporate advanced development and research lab in Intel’s Corporate Technology Group that is responsible for all communications technologies including radio, optical, and copper physical layer technologies, CMOS communications circuits work, packet processing, and higher layer protocols. Additionally, I am very interested in how these technologies intersect with public policy, particularly in areas like spectrum use, and so I also help drive communications strategies and policy for the corporation. I also coordinate our Communications Research Council, which oversees research activities between Intel and academic programs. Finally I get to do a lot of things external to Intel including serving on the FCC Technological Advisory Council, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, the Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, and on various academic advisory committees.
Knut is an Intel Fellow and leads an R&D group responsible for developing new mainstream storage innovations for Intel platforms. His team develops the core technology behind Intel’s new high-performance solid-state drive (SSD), as well as contributes to the definition and evolution of several storage interfaces including ONFi (Open NAND Flash Interface), NVMHCI (Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface), and Serial ATA.
Knut joined Intel in 1993 as a hardware engineer in the Intel Architecture Labs where his primary focus was on improving the storage performance of Intel’s entry into the standard high-volume server segment. His focus transitioned to mainstream storage optimization techniques where his contributions included disk reorganization techniques for improved application launch performance. Knut then drove definition of the Serial ATA disk drive interface standard and its subsequent evolutions and enhancements, which continues today. His current primary focus is on solid state storage technologies including approaches to make efficient use of NAND flash in the platform and new technologies for high-performance NAND-based SSDs.
He received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University. He also holds 31 U.S. patents and serves as chairman of the board of directors for both the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) and the Open NAND Flash Interface organization (ONFi).
Marc has been with Intel since 1984, working in various groups including Assembly/Test Manufacturing, Event Marketing, Site IT and the e-Business group.
Marc is an avid technology junkie and has been piecing together consumer electronics with computers since he got his first modem (when he created an answering machine on his computer while everyone else was still using double-tape answering machines). He enjoys trying new technologies and finding ways to make his life more comfortable, more convenient and a little bit more entertaining for him and his wife.
Marc is passionate about photography and loves what technology and the internet have allowed him to do with his art. Marc hails from Texas, and then spent 13 years in Arizona before happily settling in Oregon. His only complaint is that when it comes to broadcast and internet TV, music, movies, podcasts, videocasts, etc, there is just too much content and not enough time.
See all his photos from CES in his CES2008 Flickr Set.
Learn more about WiMAX.
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Nick Knupffer has worked at Intel in various capacities since 1999, including technical, marketing and PR roles. He has supported a myriad of technologies including CPU’s, servers, software and networking products. Nick was also the Gaming Marketing Manager for 4 years - amongst other things - running the UK’s clan sponsorship programme; and has worked in PR at Intel both in rainy Swindon and sunny Silicon Valley. (For those who don’t know Swindon, it is a town in England that boasts the most exciting roundabouts in the country, including the fabled ‘Magic Roundabout’.) Nick is also an Intel’s Intel Achievement Award recipient. Nick studied Computer Science at Kingston University and Russian at Queen Mary’s College, London.
Paul Bergevin is Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Global Communication Group. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of corporate and product communications worldwide. Paul has a strong background in enterprise computing, PCs, semiconductors and software, along with experience communicating technology subjects to a wide spectrum of audiences.
In 1999 Paul was named a technology PR All-Star by Inside PR Magazine. He serves as marketing advisor to the national board of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), which provides vital services to neglected children through a network of trained community volunteers. Paul is also on the board of advisors of Consumer Direct, a member-based identity management system.
Since beginning at Intel in 2000, Rob has been working in the Flash memory groups in various roles, from engineering technician to business development manager. Rob's blogging experience began in 2007 with the beginning of his love for running. Since 2007, Rob has been maintaining personal blogs on his racing, his diving, and more.
Shekhar Y. Borkar is an Intel Fellow, Corporate Technology Group and Director of Microprocessor Technology Lab. Borkar is responsible for directing research in technologies for Intel’s future microprocessors.
Borkar joined Intel in 1981. He worked on the design of the 8051 family of microcontrollers, iWarp multicomputer and high-speed signaling technology for Intel supercomputers. Borkar is an adjunct member of the faculty of the Oregon Graduate Institute. He has published over 60 articles and holds 41 patents.
Borkar was born in Mumbai, India. He received a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1981, and a master and bachelor degrees in Physics from the University of Bombay in 1979.
OK, Steve was my boss, and what really stands out in my mind is Steve’s technical strength. He would never tolerate any non-technical material I may have put in a technical presentation or keynote. We would always receive comments after Steve gave a keynote on how attendees appreciated his technology focus and straight talk. Steve has MCed all but one of our IDF Shop Talks, and has given a number of IDF Keynotes and Tech Insights. His blog starting point will be High Performance Computing.
Ton Steenman is vice president, Digital Enterprise Group, and general manager of the
Infrastructure Processor Division. In this capacity, he is responsible for the architecture, development and marketing of microprocessor, network processor and chipset solutions for embedded market segments.
Steenman was instrumental in establishing Intel’s position in embedded market segments such as communications, security, storage, point of sale, gaming and industrial control. Intel’s position in the embedded market has strengthened considerably over the past decade as the company has introduced a broad set of Intel Architecture-based platforms.
Over the past few years, he has held general management positions for the Embedded Intel Architecture Division and the Modular Communications Platform Division. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1980 from MTS Leyweg in the Netherlands.
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