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Brian Krzanich is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel. He joined the company as an engineer in 1982, and served as chief operating officer prior to being promoted to CEO. In his current role, Krzanich has been credited for diversifying Intel's product offerings and workforce. Krzanich has served on the Deere & Co. and Semiconductor Industry Association boards, as well as the Drone Advisory Committee, which advises the Federal Aviation Administration. He is from Santa Clara County, California, graduated from San Jose State University in 1982.

Early life and education
Krzanich is from Santa Clara County, California, and graduated from San Jose State University in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry.

Intel
Krzanich began working as a process engineer at Intel's chip factory in New Mexico in 1982. He became manager of a fabrication plant in Chandler, Arizona, in 1996, and later supervised assembly and testing facilities. He held management roles within Intel's manufacturing division, managed a plant in Massachusetts, and began overseeing the company's factories and supply chains in 2007. Intel removed conflict minerals from its microprocessors while Krzanich was in charge of the company's supply chain. He cited moral obligation as the reason to take action, and said the issue was "very important and personal" to him. Intel worked to use conflict-free minerals for all microprocessors by 2014 and all products by 2016, and Krzanich was included in the documentary film Merci Congo (2016).

In January 2012, Krzanich was promoted to the role of chief operating officer. He led Intel's China strategy in this role.

Krzanich has served as chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel since May 2013. In this role, Krzanich has been credited for expanding Intel's offerings beyond central processing units (CPUs) and into other technologies, including 5G wireless networks, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, cloud computing, drones, and wearables. Intel has also explored artificial, augmented, and virtual reality, as well as machine learning, during his tenure.

Krzanich has focused on increasing diversity within Intel's workforce. In January 2015, he announced Intel's $300 million Diversity in Technology initiative to support the company's goal to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities in Intel's U.S. workforce by 2020, and accelerate diversity and inclusion across the technology industry at large. These activities include funding engineering scholarships at historically black colleges and universities, establishing a professional gaming women's team, and sponsoring female students to attend game developer conferences in partnership with the International Game Developers Association. In addition to Intel's Diversity in Technology initiative, the company's Hack Harassment campaign has worked to address cyberbullying with Krzanich as CEO.

In January 2017, Krzanich spoke out against Executive Order 13769, U.S. President Donald Trump 's executive order banning entry into the country by residents of seven predominantly Muslim nations. In February, he stood alongside Trump at the White House to announce a $7 billion investment in a new factory in Chandler. The announcement was made one day after Intel and other companies told a court that they believed Trump's immigration order was unconstitutional. Krzanich also expressed support for the president's regulatory and tax policies on behalf of Intel. Krzanich supported transgender rights before and after Trump announced the reinstatement of the ban on military service by transgender individuals in July.

In August, Krzanich became the third executive to leave the Trump administration's American Manufacturing Council in 24 hours (following Kenneth Frazier and Kevin Plank, the CEOs of Merck & Co. and Under Armour, respectively), based on the president's response to the Unite the Right rally. In a blog post confirming his resignation, Krzanich said "promoting American manufacturing 'should not be a political issue.  He and other CEOs in the technology industry called for legal protections for "Dreamers", or immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, after the Trump administration rescinded the immigration policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in September 2017.

Krzanich's involvement in politics and Intel's diversity initiatives required the company to increase personal security funding for Krzanich and other colleagues because of received threats. He has made personal political contributions through Intel's political action committee.

Board service
Krzanich has served on the boards of the energy company Lilliputian and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), for which he also served as the elected chairman in 2015. He was elected to Deere & Co.'s board of directors in January 2016. He was appointed chairman of the Drone Advisory Committee, which offers recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration, in May 2016.

Personal life
Krzanich is married to Brandee Krzanich and has two daughters, with whom he has attended hackathons. He holds one patent for semiconductor processing, and is a licensed pilot.

In June 2016, Krzanich canceled an event at his home in Atherton, California that was reported by The New York Times to be a fundraiser in support of Trump. According to Intel, the event was intended to be "a full exchange of views". Krzanich later said he would not endorse a candidate in the U.S. presidential election.