Career
Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer of VMware he was President and Chief Operating Officer, Electric Membership Corporation Information Infrastructure Products at Electric Membership Corporation. Before joining Electric Membership Corporation, he was the first Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corporation and Senior Vice-president and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel. As Chief Technology Officer of Intel he also invented the conference Intel Developer Forum as a counterpart to Microsoft"s WinHEC Gelsinger is also author of Balancing Your Family, Faith, & Work and coauthor of In September 2009, Pat Gelsinger left Intel to join Electric Membership Corporation. In late 2012, Gelsinger was named by industry analysts as a possible successor to Steve Ballmer as the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft.
