Greg Lavender is Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As CTO, he is responsible for driving Intel’s future technical innovation and research programs through his leadership of Intel Labs, Intel Federal, Intel Security and Intel Information Technology. He is also responsible for defining and executing Intel's software strategy across artificial intelligence, confidential computing and the growing need for open accelerated computing to support Intel's range of business and hardware offerings.Greg joined Intel in June 2021 from VMware, where he served as senior vice president and CTO. He has more than 35 years of experience in software and hardware product engineering, cloud-scale systems architecture and engineering and advanced research and development.Before VMware, he was managing director and CTO for Cloud Architecture and Technology Engineering at Citigroup, where he led the global transformation of Citi IT to adopt modern mobile technology, cloud IaaS and PaaS, big data and advanced analytics, high performance computing, and agile software development models. Prior to Citi, he was corporate vice president of Network Software Engineering at Cisco, where he led network operating system engineering and platform independent protocol engineering for both enterprise and data center switching and routing products, including the next-generation virtualized multicore network operating system for software-defined networking. Prior to Cisco, he worked at Sun Microsystems in various engineering leadership roles, including VP of Engineering for the Solaris Operating System. He was also a co-founder and Chief Scientist of three early Internet technology startups in the early 1990s, all of which were acquired. He began his career in the early 1980s as a network software engineer implementing various IETF and ISO/ITU protocols. Dr. Lavender holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech. He was a network research scientist at the MCC Research Consortium in Austin Texas and was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin for 14 years including 3 years as Associate Chairman for Academics. Dr. Lavender is an academic philanthropist having endowed three undergraduate scholarships and three PhD Fellowships. He serves on three academic advisory boards and is a Trustee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens Greece.