Gil Amelio

Dr. Amelio has held top executive responsibility at several billion-dollar global corporations. He was Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, President of Rockwell International, Chairman, President and CEO of National Semiconductor Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of Jazz Technologies. Earlier in his career, Dr. Amelio worked at Bell Labs and Fairchild Semiconductor. Dr. Amelio has served as a director of AT&T, Interdigital, Inc., Pacific Telesis, Chiron Corp, Sematech, and several private technology companies. He currently serves on the boards of Inc., ESS, Galectin Therapeutics, and is Chairman of the Board of 5Barz International. He is founding Managing Partner of Beneventure Partners – a newly formed high-technology venture-capital firm focused on identifying massive, innovative/disruptive technologies with global impact especially capitalizing on the post-Covid-19 window of opportunity. Dr. Amelio received a Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of three books, An American Imperative (1993), Profit from Experience (1995), and On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple (1998), the latter two of which were business bestsellers.o