According to an announcement published on Intel's newsroom on August 7, 2026, Intel Corporation named Dean Jarnac as executive vice president and chief sales officer. Intel said the appointment is intended to strengthen customer engagement and accelerate growth.
Per the same announcement, Jarnac will lead Intel's global sales organization, with responsibility for "strengthening Intel's customer relationships and go-to-market execution across its product portfolio, including client, data center, AI, networking, and ASICs." Intel said Jarnac will report directly to CEO Lip-Bu Tan and will join the company in September.
Intel's announcement said Jarnac joins from Marvell, where he served as chief sales officer and was responsible for the company's worldwide sales, field application engineering, and sales operations organizations.
Before Marvell, according to Intel, Jarnac held senior sales leadership positions at Broadcom and AMD. Intel's announcement credits him with "more than 30 years of experience driving deep customer partnership and growth in the semiconductor industry" — spanning four companies: AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, and now Intel.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan was quoted in the announcement framing the hire around customer focus and execution: "Customer focus and execution are central to Intel's strategy and future success." Tan also described Jarnac as "a proven leader with deep industry relationships and a strong track record of building high-performance sales organizations."
Intel disclosed that the sales leadership change is a two-part transition. Per the announcement, "as part of this transition, Greg Ernst will be leaving Intel after 27 years with the company." Intel's statement added that the company "thanks Greg for his many contributions over nearly three decades of service."
The two facts Intel disclosed together outline the shape of the transition: Jarnac's new sales organization spans Intel's full product portfolio — client, data center, AI, networking, and ASICs — and reports at the CEO level rather than through an intermediate layer, per the reporting line Intel specified. That structure sits alongside a change in tenure profile at the top of sales: Ernst's 27 years inside Intel give way to Jarnac's more-than-30-year career built entirely at other semiconductor companies — AMD, Broadcom, and most recently Marvell. Intel's own announcement does not explain why Ernst is departing beyond describing it as part of the transition, so that remains the extent of what the company has disclosed.
According to Intel's newsroom announcement, Dean Jarnac was named executive vice president and chief sales officer, effective when he joins the company in September.
Intel said Jarnac will report directly to CEO Lip-Bu Tan.
Per Intel's announcement, Jarnac joins from Marvell, where he was chief sales officer; before that he held senior sales leadership roles at Broadcom and AMD, totaling more than 30 years in the semiconductor industry.
Intel said Greg Ernst will be leaving the company after 27 years of service, as part of this transition.
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