Andy Grove first joined Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963.
When Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore left Fairchild to co-found Intel in 1968,
they hired Andy Grove as their first employee. With a background in
chemical engineering, he became director of engineering.
Grove was instrumental in taking Intel from being a DRAM manufacturer
and turning it into a microprocessor manufacturer and he became its
president in 1979, its CEO in 1987 and its Chairman and CEO between
1997 and 1998.
Grove took an egalitarian approach in his management style.
He was open to ideas and anyone was allowed to argue a point with him.
Grove's office was the same style of open 8'x9' partitioned cubicle as any
other employee and he chose not to have a reserved parking space.
During his tenure as CEO, Grove oversaw a 4,500% increase in Intel's
market capitalization from US$4 billion to US$197 billion,
making it the world's 7th largest company.
In 1997, Grove was Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
http://content.time.com/time/subscri...7588-1,00.html
Time magazine called him the “person most responsible for the amazing growth in the
power and innovative potential of microchips”.
Obituary here at IEEE web site -
http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-t...ceo-dies-at-79
Intel statement -
https://newsroom.intel.com/news-rele...ove-1936-2016/
