Patrick P. Gelsinger
Chair
Prior to joining VMware, Mr. Gelsinger served as President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products at EMC Corp., a data storage, information security, and cloud computing company, from September 2009 to August 2012. Mr. Gelsinger’s career began at Intel, where he spent 30 years before joining EMC Corp. During his initial tenure at Intel, Mr. Gelsinger served in a number of roles, including Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group from 2005 to September 2009, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer from 2002 to 2005, and leader of Desktop Products Group prior to that. Mr. Gelsinger was selected to serve on our board of directors because, as a seasoned industry veteran with over 40 years of experience in semiconductor, software, and cloud computing and data storage industries and in his role as Intel’s Chief Executive Officer, he brings significant senior leadership, global, industry, human capital, sales, operating, business development and M&A, and public company board experience to our board of directors. Furthermore, Mr. Gelsinger has gained extensive operating and manufacturing, sales, emerging technologies, M&A, and information security experience from serving in a variety of senior management roles, including Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer, at leading multinational software, information security and computing companies. Mr. Gelsinger also brings human capital and technical experience from his various senior leadership roles.
Prof. Amnon Shashua
Co-Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
In addition to his AI-based companies, Shashua founded "One Zero", the first digital bank in Israel, which is the country's first new bank in 40 years.
In 2019, Shashua was recognized as the Electronic Imaging (EI) Scientist of the Year by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) for his pivotal contributions to computer vision and machine learning, and for advancing autonomous driving and wearable assistive devices for the blind and visually impaired. Shashua and his Mobileye team were also finalists in the European Inventor Awards of 2019, awarded by the European Patent Office for their advanced driver assistance technology, which is making roads safer worldwide.
Elaine Chao
Director
Secretary Elaine Chao has served on our board of directors since June 2024. Secretary Chao has been confirmed on a bipartisan basis to two cabinet positions as U. S. Secretary of Transportation and U. S. Secretary of Labor. Secretary Chao is the first Asian American woman to serve in a President’s cabinet in American history. She is also the longest serving Cabinet member since World War II.
Secretary Chao has a distinguished career in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. As U. S. Secretary of Transportation, she focused on keeping the country’s transportation system safe and efficient; invested over $330 billion in infrastructure; and, promoted American innovation including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial systems and commercial space transport. During the COVID-19 crisis, Secretary Chao’s decisive actions kept America’s transportation networks safe and moving.
As U. S. Secretary of Labor, Secretary Chao focused on increasing the competitiveness of America’s workforce in a worldwide economy. She set new records for workplace safety and health and retirement security.
Previously, Secretary Chao was President and CEO of United Way of America where she restored public trust in the organization after it had been tarnished by scandal. She was Director of the Peace Corps where she launched the first Peace Corps programs in the Baltic nations and the former republics of the former Soviet Union including Ukraine. Secretary Chao had also served as Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission and Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation. She was also a banker with Bank of America and Citicorp.
Secretary Chao has served on the boards of numerous public companies while out of government. She is currently on the boards of Kroger and ChargePoint Holdings. She has also been a director on many nonprofit boards including Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors and Global Advisory Board; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; United Way Worldwide; Los Angeles 2028 Organizing Committee of Olympic and Paralympic Games (LA28), and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Advisory Board.
Born in Taiwan, Secretary Chao received her U. S. citizenship at age 19, after immigrating to America at the age of 8 without speaking any English. Elaine earned her undergraduate degree in economics from Mount Holyoke College, and her MBA from Harvard Business School. A proud Kentuckian, she is the recipient of 38 honorary doctorate degrees. Please visit her website: www.elainechao.com.