I am honored and humbled to be named Intel’s CEO. I loved my role as the CFO, and over the past seven months I have come to love our company even more – and its mission, employees and customers. When the board approached me about taking the CEO role, I jumped at the opportunity to remove “interim” from my title.
As an executive team, we will focus relentlessly on building great teams and culture, and delighting our customers. Leadership is a team sport and is about bringing together the team, setting the direction and letting the team be unencumbered – so they can achieve things nobody thought was possible. My biggest learning over the last seven months is how important we all are to our customers, and the responsibility and opportunity that goes with that.
As we move into the next few weeks and months, we’ll be focused on four critical imperatives.
