The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Wendell Brooks is senior vice president of Intel Corporation and president of Intel Capital. He is responsible for all areas of strategic growth, including equity investing, M&A, and new business incubation.

As head of Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, Brooks leads equity investments in innovative technology startups and companies worldwide. Under his leadership, Intel Capital is making bigger bets and delivering market leading returns by providing not only financial investments, but also the full resources of Intel to its portfolio companies. As head of one of the largest, most successful and longest serving corporate venture organizations, he has been named among the top three leaders on the Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist since 2016, most recently as No. 1 in 2018.

Brooks is also responsible for leading, managing and driving Intel’s mergers and acquisitions. He led the transformational acquisitions of Altera and Mobileye, both of which have been key elements of Intel’s growth strategy. He also led the successful divestiture of McAfee. He created the Intel Sports Group as a product of inorganic and organic efforts, and he continues to lead it as a separate business unit of Intel.

As a natural extension of his inorganic growth efforts, in 2018 Brooks was asked to lead Intel’s New Technology Group, developing new technologies and businesses internally. He redefined the portfolio to align with the team’s core mission and changed the model to focus on nimble innovation as the Emerging Growth and Incubation Group.