Ann Kelleher was appointed an executive vice-president of Intel in 2021, the first time an Irish person had held such a senior role
Ann Kelleher, from Macroom in Co Cork, joined Intel in 1996 and is now the company's executive vice-president general manager, technology development. Photograph: Alan BetsonCork’s Ann Kelleher is sharing the philosophy that has helped propel her to the senior ranks in global chip powerhouse Intel.
Back then, she was a process engineer. She had earlier worked with what is now known as the Tyndall Institute in Cork, leading a process integration group, and had a master’s, a PHD and a postdoctoral qualification under her belt. She was factory manager at Fab 24 in Ireland for around two years before applying for the plant manager role at Fab 12 in Arizona. That was followed by a stint in New Mexico before she moved on to head up Fab Sort manufacturing for Intel, a role that saw her assume responsibility for all aspects of the company’s high-volume silicon manufacturing that she held until 2015.
“In certain cases I took roles that other people didn’t take or wouldn’t because they felt they were very risky or very challenging. And in doing those I learned a lot because you learn a lot when you’re in a space where you have very challenging roles. I would say there’s a few of them here. We got a lot of help from people along the way,” she says.
It hasn’t all been smooth sailing; the company is coming out of a round of pay cuts that saw senior figures in the company take a reduction in pay of between 5 and 15 per cent. What’s very important is that there’s visible role models, because if there’s no visible role models, then people don’t see the possibilities of what diverse candidates can do
“So I came into the workplace not thinking about men and women in a workplace environment. I came into this thinking ‘okay, I can do the job so away I go’. If you have a mindset of ‘I can do the job’, then you go work at it and you go deliver. Probably from university, I was used to being where the predominant was male versus female. It was a case of, okay this is the way it is, away we go.”
Recent research indicates that some companies pulled back on diversity, equality and inclusion measures as the tech winter bit and lay-offs were announced throughout the industry. In its sights is TSMC, which produces components for some of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Apple, Qualcomm and Nvidia. Under the new plan, Intel will split the manufacturing and the design of its own products, so one arm essentially becomes “fabless” in the way that ARM and others already are and will become another customer for its own foundries.
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