Patrick Gelsinger

Name: Patrick P. Gelsinger

Born: 1962

Computer-related contributions

• Chief executive officer at VMware, an American software company that provides virtualization software and cloud services.
• Former president and COO (chief operating officer) at EMC Corporation, a company who offers data storage, information security, virtualization, and analytics.
• Earlier in his career he was first CTO (chief technology officer) of Intel Corporation.

Significant publications

• The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work (2008).
• Balancing Your Family Faith & Work (2003).
• Programming the 80386 (1991).

Honors and awards

• Honorary Doctorate of Letters from William Jessup University (2008).

Quotes

"Perhaps the current downsizing of the U.S. IT industry is not a temporary thing. Maybe we are headed for becoming a second-class citizen in the world of IT."