Intel announced that it has hired Tom Lantzsch as senior vice president and general manager to lead the IoT Group. He will assume the new position in Januanry 2017.
Lantzsch was most recently the executive vice president for strategy at rival chip company ARM, which focuses in mobile and low-power chips for IoT devices.
In a welcoming note, Murthy Renduchintala who is President of the Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group at Intel, wrote that, "Tom comes to Intel with more than 30 years of experience in Fortune 500 and early-stage startup companies. Most recently, he was the executive vice president of strategy at ARM, where he spent the last 10 years of his career."
He added that, "While we’re mentioning accelerants and passion, I’ll also highlight an exciting change to how we run our automated driving business. We created a new organization called the Automated Driving Group (ADG), which will be solely dedicated to innovating the future of driving and designing the next generation of advanced driver assist systems and autonomous driving solutions."
Intel also announced the appointment of Doug Davis as senior vice president and general manager to lead the newly created ADG group. Kathy Winter will assist Doug as vice president and general manager of the Automated Solutions Division (ASD) to deliver automated driving solutions.
