Indian American executive Sachin Katti, senior vice president and general manager of the Network and Edge Group (NEX) at Intel Corporation has been promoted as Chief Technology Officer and head of artificial intelligence.
Katti’s elevation was announced as part of a major leadership reshuffle under the company’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Reuters reported citing a memo outlining plans to flatten the semiconductor giant’s management structure, with key chip divisions now reporting directly to him.
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Katti “is expanding his responsibilities to include the role of chief technology and AI officer for the company,” Tan wrote in an email. “As part of this, he will lead our overall AI strategy and AI product roadmap, as well as Intel Labs and our relationships with the startup and developer ecosystems.”
Katti, who is also a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, will succeed Greg Lavender, who is retiring from Intel, according to the memo.
Three other longtime technical executives – Rob Bruckner, Mike Hurley and Lisa Pearce – will now report to directly Tan. “This supports our emphasis on becoming an engineering-focused company and will give me visibility into what’s needed to compete and win,” Tan wrote.
“It’s clear to me that organizational complexity and bureaucratic processes have been slowly suffocating the culture of innovation we need to win,” Tan said in the memo. “It takes too long to make decisions. New ideas are not given room or resources to incubate. And unnecessary silos lead to inefficient execution.”
Katti, according to his official bio, is currently responsible for driving technology and product leadership throughout the network to the intelligent edge. He previously served as vice president and chief technology officer for NEX, a role responsible for technical strategy and vision across the group.
Prior to joining Intel in 2021, he served as the vice president of Telco & Edge Strategy at VMware, where he defined both the product and technology vision to capitalize on the cloudification of the network and edge.
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Katti is also the co-chair of the Technical Steering Committee for the O-RAN Alliance and was founding director of the xRAN Foundation before its merger with the O-RAN Alliance.
Katti is co-founder and former CEO of Uhana (now part of VMware), which built a network AI platform to monitor and optimize mobile networks and applications. He previously co-founded Kumu Networks, which commercializes breakthrough research from his lab on full duplex radios.
Katti received his doctorate in electrical engineering/computer science from MIT in 2009.