User:DeclanGardiner/sandbox

Ann Kelleher


Dr Ann B. Kelleher is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Technology and Manufacturing Group at Intel Corporation.

Education
Kelleher is originally from Macroom in County Cork, Ireland where her father worked as a farmer. He had a love for maths that was passed on to his daughter. Kelleher thoroughly enjoyed maths and science in secondary school. As a result, she chose to study Engineering in University College Cork (UCC) for her third level education. She was one of just five women in her class of 55 at UCC. She specialised in Electrical Engineering and graduated in 1987. She also chose to study Electrical Engineering at Master’s level instead of accepting a job offer at Digital in Clonmel, Tipperary. She graduated from her Master’s in 1989. She then became the first ever female to receive a PhD from the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC), now part of the Tyndall National Institute at UCC in 1993. She ran a process integration group in Tyndall from 93-96.

Early Career
In 1996 Kelleher joined Intel Ireland in Leixlip, Kildare, Ireland as a process engineer where she quickly rose through the ranks. Her first major role of responsibility was factory manager of Fab 24 in Leixlip when it opened in 2006. Fab 24 is responsible for the manufacturing of semiconductors in Intel. At the time, it was Intel's first chip factory in Europe using advanced 65nm process technology. Kelleher then made the decision to leave Ireland in 2008 to go to the United States to become the plant manager at Intel’s Fab 12 plant in Chandler, Arizona. Kelleher was also the site manager of Intel’s Fab 11X fabrication facility in Rio Rancho, New Mexico for a period before finally moving to Portland, Oregon in 2015 where she still currently lives.

Role at Intel Corporate
Before assuming her current position, Kelleher was general manager of the Fab/Sort Manufacturing organization. In that role, she was responsible for all aspects of Intel’s high-volume silicon manufacturing. She then became the first Irish woman in the history of the company to be named as a vice president. She now has many different responsibilities at Intel including corporate quality assurance, customer fulfillment and supply-chain management, while strategic planning for the company’s worldwide manufacturing operations is also part of her remit.

Kelleher and Gender Equality in Engineering
Kelleher is a passionate advocate for women working in engineering roles and holding senior management positions in the tech industry. She has said that more girls should study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects in school and university. She believes that a more diverse workplace leads to more creative solutions, as well as providing fulfilling careers for those who choose that path. Kelleher also believes that more women should be applying for senior management roles and encourages them to always believe that they are the best person for the role. She uses her own experiences as examples for any women considering applying for these roles. She has said that sponsorship is one great way to help women in deciding whether they should apply for these roles. Sponsorship is where a senior in the company takes care of a person and provides them with any information on job opportunities. Kelleher has been encouraged by the increase in the number of girls studying STEM subjects and hopes that it continues to increase.

Personal Life
As leisure, Kelleher enjoys pilates, travelling, reading, gardening and hiking. She travels to Asia approximately twice a year and to Europe about three times a year. She often goes back to Cork to visit her family on their farm in Macroom which she does not count as travel.