Prasad L. Rampalli

Vice President, Digital Enterprise Group
Director, End-User Platform Integration
INTEL CORPORATION

Prasad L. Rampalli is the vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group and director of End-User Platform Integration for Intel Corporation.

Rampalli is a 25 year Intel veteran and has led significant transformational roles in Manufacturing, Information technology and Platform Business Units.

In his current assignment (2005 - ) Rampalli is leading an End user R&D function responsible for driving usage model innovation into enterprise platforms and rapid integration into IT /End user environments. Rampalli plays a strategic role as the Enterprise CIO "proxy" for the Digital Enterprise group (DEG) which accounts for greater than 50% of Intel's revenue. His team is leading the charge on game changing enterprise strategies focused on DEG's growth. These include stateless computing/software as a service (SaaS) models, service delivery based appliance and business models in small and medium enterprises (SME) and Data Center virtualization. These emerging usages entail partnering extensively with select end users, software ISVs and systems integrators.

Prior to this, Rampalli spent twelve years in Intel's Information technology group and lead most of IT's major technology transitions including client/server standardization on windows, ERP (SAP) worldwide rollout, 100% eCorp build out and Service oriented architectures (SOA). Rampalli was the Chief architect and Vice President responsible for application development and engineering functions across a 3000 person technical team in 25+ sites worldwide. He was Intel's executive partner for joint solutions development with leading ISVs (SAP, MSFT, and TIBCO).

Rampalli joined Intel in 1983 and spent seven years in TMG leading the deployment and standardization of Intel's shop floor control and equipment performance management system across Intel's factories.

Rampalli was named to CIO Magazine's Top 100 Honoree List in 2001 and 2002. He is on the advisory board of UC Davis Graduate School of business and a founder of IT "center of excellence" at UCD. Rampalli has received three Intel Achievement Awards.

Rampalli received a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Texas at Arlington. He received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India.