Hotard will be overseeing Intel’s suite of data centre products for enterprise and cloud, including the Intel Xeon processor family, GPUs and accelerators.
Intel Corporation has appointed Justin Hotard as executive vice president and general manager of its Data Center and AI Group (DCAI), effective February 1. Hotard, who brings over 20 years of experience in driving transformation and growth in computing and data centre businesses, is recognized as a leader in delivering scalable AI systems for the enterprise.
Hotard will join Intel’s executive leadership team and report directly to CEO Pat Gelsinger. His responsibilities will include overseeing Intel’s suite of data centre products for enterprise and cloud, including the Intel Xeon processor family, graphics processing units (GPUs), and accelerators. He will also play a crucial role in advancing the company’s mission to make AI ubiquitous.
Before joining Intel, Hotard served as executive vice president and general manager of High-Performance Computing, AI, and Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where he was responsible for delivering AI capabilities to customers addressing complex problems through data-intensive workloads. He also led the company’s central applied research group, Hewlett Packard Labs.
Hotard’s previous roles include serving as president of NCR Small Business and holding corporate development and operating positions at Symbol Technologies and Motorola Inc. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
CEO Pat Gelsinger praised Hotard as a proven leader with a customer-first mindset and an impressive record of driving growth and innovation in the data centre and AI sectors. Gelsinger expressed confidence in Hotard’s commitment to Intel’s vision of creating world-changing technologies and his passion for Intel’s critical role in empowering customers for the future.
He succeeds Sandra Rivera, who became the chief executive officer of the Programmable Solutions Group, an Intel standalone business, on January 1.
