In a memo to employees seen by CRN, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the departure of Platform Engineering Group leader Rob Bruckner will result in the merger of that group and another engineering division that will be led by another direct report, Mike Hurley.
In a Monday memo to employees seen by CRN, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced the departure of 25-year company veteran Rob Bruckner, who he appointed in April to lead the Platform Engineering Group as part of a restructuring of his leadership team that made Bruckner and two other engineering leaders direct reports to Tan.
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Tan said the departure will result in the merger of the Silicon Engineering Group and the Platform Engineering Group. Mike Hurley, who Tan named as the leader of the Silicon Engineering Group in April, will lead the “newly combined Silicon Engineering and Client Platform Group” and has been promoted to senior vice president, according to the CEO.
“Those two teams already work closely together, and this change creates an opportunity for us to further strengthen our collaboration by bringing the teams together under a single leader,” Tan wrote in the memo.
Tan said Bruckner is “joining Dell to run the commercial PC business where he will continue as an important strategic partner.”
An Intel spokesperson confirmed the moves to CRN.
“We’re grateful for Rob Bruckner’s many contributions during his time at Intel and wish him continued success in his new role,” the representative said in a statement.
“We’re pleased to have Mike Hurley expanding his leadership to oversee the Silicon Engineering and Client Platform Group, continuing our focus on developing innovative solutions for our customers,” the spokesperson added.
A Dell spokesperson confirmed to CRN that Bruckner will lead the commercial side of the company’s Client Solutions Group.
The restructuring of Tan’s leadership team was one of the first moves he made after he became CEO in March. When he announced the move to employees in mid-April, Tan said the restructuring was meant to create a “flatter structure” for his executive team and cut down on “organizational complexity and bureaucratic processes [that] have been slowly suffocating the culture of innovation we need to win.”
When Tan addressed making Bruckner, Hurley and another engineering leader, Lisa Pearce, as direct reports, he said it would support Intel’s “emphasis on becoming an engineering-focused company” and give him “visibility into what’s needed to compete and win.”
The company has seen several executive departures, appointments and other changes since Tan became CEO, CRN previously reported. Among these moves were the recent appointment of Arm executive Kevork Kechichian as the leader of its Data Center Group and the departure of longtime executive Michelle Johnston Holthaus.
When Tan made his first public appearance as Intel’s CEO in late March, he said the company needed to “recruit some of the best talent in the industry to come back” as part of his push for the chipmaker to become an “engineering-focused company.”
In his Monday memo to employees, Tan addressed this push.
“Empowering engineers across the company, while also attracting new talent from the outside to join us, is core to our future success—and I want to thank all of our engineering teams for the work you are doing to create great products and delight our customers,” he wrote.
