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Ohio State Announces Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger As Spring Commencement Speaker

Ohio State has named its commencement speaker.

Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger will serve as the guest speaker for Ohio State's spring commencement ceremony, the school announced on Tuesday afternoon.

Gelsinger has worked in technology for more than four decades and was named the CEO of the Intel Corporation last year, decades after first joining the company when he was just 18 years old. Before rejoining Intel in 2021, Gelsinger was CEO of VMware, a company that specializes in cloud infrastructure, enterprise mobility and cyber security. There, he was named the best CEO in America by a Glassdoor survey in 2019.