Renee J. James

Senior Vice President
General Manager, Software and Services Group
INTEL CORPORATION

Renee J. James is senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group for Intel Corporation. She is responsible for delivering software products and support across Intel's entire product line by building and distributing software and services products and partnering with independent software partners in the industry. In addition, she is responsible for the Intel worldwide developer programs as well as R&D of next generation software. Her organization operates in more than 20 countries.

James is chairman of two Intel subsidiaries: Wind River Systems and Havok, both of which report into the Software and Services Group. Wind River Systems is a leading real-time operating system vendor and embedded software provider. Havok is a leading middleware provider offering software products for high performance gaming such as physics and animation. James also serves as an independent director on the VMware Inc. Board of Directors and is a member of the Audit Committee. She is also a member of the C200.

Previously, James was vice president of Developer Programs for Intel. In this capacity, she was responsible for overseeing Intel's relationship and development efforts with partners such as Microsoft. Prior to that, she was the director and COO of Intel Online Services, Intel's datacenter business. James has contributed to several key software and services efforts during her tenure at Intel: the first software video codecs (Indeo) and the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the unification of Unix on Intel Architecture. Additionally, she was part of the pioneering team working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to move applications to the Intel Architecture.

James joined Intel in 1988 with the acquisition of Bell Technologies. She received her bachelor's degree in 1986 and master's degree in 1992, both from the University of Oregon.