Poirier will lead Intel’s enterprise development team and be fully responsible for working closely with Intel’s management team and board of directors to promote and accelerate Intel’s business through strategic acquisition opportunities. Poirier will join the company’s management team and report directly to Kissinger.

Prior to joining AMD, Poirier served as senior vice president of corporate development and investor relations at Xilinx. Before that, he worked in the field of technology investment banking for nearly ten years and set foot in the semiconductor industry. Prior to his graduate study, Poirier held management positions in the U.S. Navy for more than six years. Poirier holds an MBA from UCLA and a Bachelor of science from the US Naval Academy.