Annie Frost has worked on the web for 10 years. She has lived in Texas, California, Connecticut, the United Kingdom and currently lives in Arizona. In her free time, she reads many books, hosts informal dinner parties with friends and family, and travels when she can. On this blog, you can expect her to chime in on intel.com website updates and to explore stories of how Intel is making a difference in the world around us.
Bill Kircos is director of Intel Corporation's product and technology-related public relations efforts, overseeing the company's consumer and enterprise processors and brands (Core™, Atom™, Pentium™, Xeon®, Centrino® and others), mobile and wireless businesses and manufacturing and R&D efforts. He has been with Intel in a public relations capacity for twelve years and has almost 20 years of experience in the PR and communications fields. Kircos has also been a lead communications manager for the department's social media outreach since 2005.
Deborah S. Conrad is vice president and general manager of the Corporate Marketing Group. Conrad is responsible for Intel's brand management, product positioning, product launch management and marketing research, as well as sales and integrated marketing communications, advertising, and promotional campaigns designed to reach consumer and business customers worldwide.
Prior to leading the Corporate Marketing Group, Conrad created and directed Team Apple and oversaw all aspects of the Intel and Apple relationship since the beginning of the partnership in 2005 through 2008. She was responsible for all aspects of the Intel and Apple business, including sales and revenue, product engineering, software development support and market development
Kari Aakre manages the consumer and social media relations team, responsible for the company's consumer PR and social media outreach in Intel's Global Communications Group. She's worked in PR at Intel for nearly 8 years, covering a variety of areas from enterprise software, Intel's R&D efforts, to the digital home and launch of Intel Viiv technology brand, WiMAX, as well as the company's leading silicon technology and manufacturing. Most recently she worked on the media campaign for Intel's "reinvented transistor" breakthrough for Intel's 45nm high-k metal gate process technology, and also led the Intel PR outreach around Intel's $1 billion investment in a new wireless broadband company to be formed via an agreement between Clearwire and Sprint. Prior to joining Intel, Aakre worked at an Oregon-based tech PR agency. She has a journalism degree .
Ken is a writer and producer with a background in broadcasting. He joined Intel in 2000 from KRON-TV, the former NBC affiliate in San Francisco, CA.
The corporate communications team put him to work on sharing stories about products, research and people behind technology innovation. The truth is...he uses this gig just to meet fascinating people and test out new technologies inside Intel!
Here are some places where you can see videos and audio stories that he has created: Channel Intel on YouTube, the Intel Pressroom and on the Intel Podcast channel.
You can follow his discoveries about people and technology on my personal blog "Movin' Ahead", on Facebook and Twitter.
Kiesha Cochrane joined Intel in 2008 as a part of the Consumer and Social Media Relations team, responsible for the company's consumer PR and social media outreach in Intel's Global Communications Group.
A northwest native, Kiesha grew up in the Seattle area. She graduated from Portland State University in Portland Ore., with a B.A. in Communications. Prior to joining the Intel family, Kiesha worked in television news at the local CBS affiliate (KOIN) in Portland. Most recently, Kiesha worked as PR Associate at an international sportswear company also based in Portland.
Outside of work, Kiesha is a super facebooker and digg.com addict. She is also as a huge sports fan (go Seahawks!), loves to travel, spend time outdoors and enjoys spending time with friends and family.
Regina Wu is a performance engineer in the Performance Benchmarking Group at Intel. She works on gaming performance testing; identifying and testing what gamers love and want for system performance. She is also a part of the world-renowned PMS Clan, where she is the division leader of the Guitar Hero/Rock Band division. She has competed in several high profile tournaments, such as the World Series of Video Games, Championship Gaming Series, World Cyber Games, and online leagues like CAL and CEVO.
Todd Christ is a Senior Systems Engineer for Intel and contributes as a PC enthusiast for "Inside Scoop." He has worked in the IT industry for almost twenty years, and has been with Intel for 14 of them. His current position is based around evaluating end-user experiences with Digital Enterprise Products within Intel. His passion both inside and outside of work is computing, whether you're dealing with handhelds or servers - if you can use it, he's most likely had one or juggled a few machines over time. Todd grew up on the East Coast, but has been in NorCal since his career started at Intel. You may find "Toadster" active in several online-community venues; you'll find his stuff on Intel Communities , and various other 3rd party forums, some for work - and some for play. He is a believer in the social community whether it's social, gaming, blogging, forum-related or person-to-person. He is a 'real' gamer, so bring your l337 SkillZ or be prepared to be pwned.
You can tweet/ joke/ befriend/game with Todd on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and on Steam as well.
