Karen Walker Joins Intel as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
September 30 2019 - 02:00PM
Business Wire
Karen Walker, a veteran of more than 20 years of global
technology industry marketing, will join Intel as senior vice
president and chief marketing officer (CMO), effective Oct. 23.
Walker will oversee Intel’s global marketing group and be
responsible for building and strengthening Intel’s brand,
supporting growth strategies, cultivating opportunities in new and
existing markets, and increasing demand for Intel’s products and
solutions globally.
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Karen Walker will join Intel as senior
vice president and chief marketing officer, effective Oct. 23,
2019. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
“Karen is a truly a world-class CMO,” said Bob Swan, Intel’s
CEO. “She has deep experience with many of our most valued
customers and a keen understanding of what it will take to play an
even larger role in their success. We are excited to have Karen on
our leadership team.”
Walker joins Intel from Cisco, where she was chief marketing
officer since 2015. In that role, she helped lead the company’s
evolution to a hybrid business model selling hardware, software,
services and software as a service (SaaS) solutions. At Cisco she
transformed the marketing function, helping to increase the
company’s brand value.
“Intel is an iconic company at a pivotal moment as it transforms
to power a world of new possibilities and expanded market
opportunities. It is one of the most globally recognized brands
with a strong story to tell. I look forward to joining a great team
and building the future of technology together,” Walker said.
Before Cisco, Walker also worked at Hewlett-Packard, where she
held both business and consumer leadership positions.
Walker serves as a board member of Eli Lilly, Spark Social and
the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). She is a graduate of
Loughborough University in England. She was awarded an honorary
doctorate of business administration from the University of
Sunderland in 2018.
Walker will report to Michelle Johnston Holthaus, executive vice
president and general manager of Intel’s Sales, Marketing and
Communications Group.
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greatest challenges as well as helping secure, power and connect
billions of devices and the infrastructure of the smart, connected
world – from the cloud to the network to the edge and everything in
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