Prasad L. Rampalli

Vice President, Intel Architecture Group
Director, End-User Platform Integration
INTEL CORPORATION

Prasad L. Rampalli is the vice president of the Intel Architecture 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, Rampalli is leading an End user R&D function responsible for driving usage model innovation and standards across Intel's enterprise and consumer platforms with a focus on end user value and ease of integration. Rampalli plays a strategic role as the Enterprise CIO "proxy" and is driving game changing strategies including cloud computing, client virtualization, IT consumerization and service delivery models. This entails partnering extensively with select end users, ISVs and service providers/Telcos.

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, 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.