Athboy man promoted to vice-president at Intel

An Athboy man is one of two new Irish vice-presidents at Intel.

Intel announced the promotion of Eamonn McGovern, general manager, Manufacturing Quality and Reliability, who becomes a vice-president of Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Operations, and Seán O’Sullivan, general manager, Corporate Strategic Procurement, who also becomes a vice-president of Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Operations.

Eamonn is a native of Athboy. He studied Mechanical Engineering in DIT Dundalk, and after returning from assignments in the US, he settled with his family in Kilbride, County Meath, where he has lived for 22 years.

Outside of work, Eamonn interests include spending quality time with his wife Angela, sons Callum, Jake and Zack, GAA and Arsenal Football Club.

Eamonn has built strong network connections with the Kilbride GAA club and through the support of the Intel Involved Matching Grant Program, has brought over $100,000 in project funding to the club and the community.

He is based at Intel’s campus in Leixlip, and is the leader of Manufacturing Quality and Reliability, a large, cross-functional, global organisation with teams across Intel’s Asia, Europe, Israel, Costa Rica and US manufacturing sites.

Eamonn has 35 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, firstly working for Fujitsu Microelectronics in a high-volume assembly and test operation before joining Intel in 1991 at the start of the Fab 10 project.

Eamonn has held a number of roles in product engineering, integration, and quality and reliability in wafer fabrication as well as supply chain quality management, customer quality support and boards assembly. he also completed multiple us-based assignments in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon as well as Swindon in the UK.

Seán O’Sullivan

Seán O’Sullivan is the global head of Corporate Strategic Procurement in the Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Operations organisation at Intel.

Seán was born in Killarney, and grew up in Celbridge, where he was a student in Salesian College. He holds a Bachelor of Business Studies degree from Dublin City University and a postgraduate degree in Information Technology from Maynooth University.

Like Eamonn, Seán is a passionate GAA man and lifelong member of Celbridge GAA, with whom he played at every level.

He and his wife, Keira, an Intel alumnus and now an interior designer, and their three children, Ava, Evan, and Saoirse, are currently based in Ireland, having also spent time in the US.

Irish vice-presidents at Intel

These two promotions take to 11 the number of Irish, or Ireland based, people who now hold vice-president positions in the company.

Cork born Dr Ann B Kelleher was last year named as executive vice-president and is the general manager of Technology Development at Intel. Ann-Marie Holmes, the co-general manager of Intel Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing, was named as a corporate vice-president of Intel’s Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Operations organisation last year. Eamonn Sinnott, who was recently named as the Interim Site Manufacturing and operations manager for Intel’s new manufacturing development in Magdeburg Germany, Joe McDonnell, general manager of Strategic Planning, who is based in Arizona, and Fab 24 factory manager Neil Philip, are all vice-presidents of Intel’s Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Operations organisation.

Dermot Hargaden, who is based in Cork, is general manager of Sales and Business Management, Programmable Solutions Group and vice-president, Sales and Marketing Group. Paul Scully is a vice-president in the Human Resources organisation, where he is the director for Europe, Middle East and Africa Region, and John Healy is the general manager, Platform Management and Customer Engineering and vice-president, Internet of Things Group. Rory O’Connor, who is director of Global Logistics at Intel, is a vice-president in the Global Supply Chain organisation.