Michelle Johnston Holthaus
Intel quietly made another change to its top ranks this week, just one day after a different longtime executive announced his exit.
Hillsboro executive Michelle Johnston Holthaus will run Intel's sales and marketing group, the chipmaker said Wednesday in a securities filing. The Linfield College graduate, who joined the company in 1996, replaces Greg Pearson.
Pearson, who'd held the job since 2013, will get a new job when he returns from sabbatical. He's based at the corporate headquarters in California,
The chipmaker's leadership has been in nearly continuous transition over the past two years as Intel repositions the business to prepare for long-term decline in its core PC business.
On Tuesday, Stacy Smith - president of Intel's manufacturing and sales organizations - told employees he was leaving for another, unspecified professional opportunity. Smith had been the company's longtime chief financial officer before taking a newly created job leading manufacturing and sales last year.
A half-dozen executives have left Intel's top ranks since July 2015, and the company has added a similar number of new executives from outside the business.
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