Craig Barrett (chief executive)

Craig R. Barrett ( Craig Barrett Radford, born August 29, 1939 in San Francisco, California ) is a former President and CEO of Intel.

Barrett studied from 1957 at Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and a master's degree in 1963 and his doctorate in materials science in 1964. Afterwards it was until 1974 an associate professor at Stanford University. 1964/65 he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, and in 1972 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, where he worked with Rodney Cotterill.

From 1975 he was at Intel, first as a manager in the field of reliability and quality assurance. 1983/84 he led the component composition ( Components Assembly ), 1984, he was appointed Vice President in 1987 and Senior Vice President. In 1990, he was Executive Vice President of the Microcomputer Components Group. In 1992 he was promoted to the board of directors of Intel and he was COO in 1993. In 1997, he became president of Intel CEO and 1998, which he remained until 2005, when he was Chairman of the Board ( Chairman of the Board). In 2009 he resigned as Chairman and Member of the Supervisory Board.

After he left Intel to retire, he taught at the Thunderbird School for Global Management in Glendale, Arizona. He is Co-President of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Barrett is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an honorary doctorate from the University of Novosibirsk. In 2004 he received the Robert N. Noyce Medal.

He is married to Barbara McConnell, with whom he has two children. She was the 2008/ 09 U.S. Ambassador in Finland.

Writings

• With William D. Nix & Alan S. Tetelman: The principles of engineering materials. Prentice-Hall, 1973, ISBN 0137093942