Rory M. McInerney

Vice President, Digital Enterprise Group
Director, Enterprise Microprocessor Group
INTEL CORPORATION

Rory M. McInerney is vice president, Digital Enterprise Group and director of the Enterprise Microprocessor Group. McInerney leads multiple microprocessor design engineering teams responsible for the design and development of the Intel® Itanium® product family targeted at the mission-critical server market.

Prior to his current role, McInerney led the design team for the Intel® Xeon® Multi-Processor family.

McInerney joined Intel in 1990 as a senior engineer on the Intel 395 Cache Controller, and later moved to a design role on the Intel 486 family of processors. He later joined the design team for the first 64-bit Intel Itanium processor and went on to lead successive generations of this processor family.

In 2007, McInerney received an Intel Achievement Award for delivering the Tulsa Xeon-MP processor to market ahead of schedule. He holds two U.S. patents on microprocessor microarchitecture.

McInerney graduated from the National University of Ireland, Cork, in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1997 with a master's degree in business administration.