Robert B. Crooke

Vice President
General Manager, Atom and SOC Development Group
INTEL CORPORATION

Robert Crooke is a corporate vice president and is general manager of the Atom and System-on-a-Chip Development Group (ASDG). This group is responsible for delivering world-class low-power processors for the Intel® Atom™ processor product line as well as developing enabling technology for system-on-a-chip (SoC) products across the company.

Previously, Crooke served as vice president and general manager of the Business Client Group where he was responsible for Intel's desktop products and directing Intel's cross client vision for business client computing. Just prior to this, Crooke was vice president and director of marketing and planning in the Desktop Products Group. This included the processor and chipset product roadmaps as well as digital home and digital office initiatives. From 2000 – 2004 Crooke was vice president and general manager of the Platform Architecture and Solutions Division. In this role he was responsible for the company's development of motherboard products in addition to desktop microprocessor and chipset enabling technology. Crooke has served as director of marketing for the Basic Microprocessor Division and Performance Microprocessor Division. He joined Intel in 1989 in the sales force as a field applications engineer and spent nine years in the field in various roles.

Prior to joining Intel, he held design engineering positions at Alliant Computer Systems and Custom Silicon Inc. He received his bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1985. Crooke was appointed vice president in 2002 and elected corporate vice president in 2005.