Andy bryant intel biography of christopher

Chip giant Intel has named Andy Bryant – its former CFO and current executive vice president in charge of its technology, manufacturing, and services operation – as vice chairman, and tapped him to become chairman of the board next May.

Bryant came to Intel in 1981 after stints at Ford Motor Company and Chrysler – and I know what you're thinking.

One, why are they putting a bean counter in charge of Intel? And two, how did a car freak make it in Silicon Valley all these years?

Quite well, as it turns out. And by working his way up through the ranks from the accounting side of the chip operation.

The convivial Bryant started out as a controller in Intel's Commercial Memory Systems business three decades ago, before Intel decided to get out of the memory business – and probably saved its own sweet corporate life.

A few years later, he was moved over to be controller in Intel's fledgling Systems Group, and by 1987, he was name director of financ