Dr. Zane A. Ball is a Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Platform Engineering & Architecture (DPEA) group. DPEA owns end-to-end engineering for Intel’s data center business and is responsible for designing and validating the latest data center platforms and enabling Intel’s customers to ramp and deploy platforms at scale.
Prior to his data center role, Ball was Co-GM of Intel’s foundry effort as a VP in the Technology and Manufacturing group. Ball has also served as a VP of the Client Computing Group including roles as GM of the desktop client business and as GM of global customer engineering.
Ball has a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all earned from Rice University. He holds six patents in high-speed electrical design.
