Andrew S. Grove was chairman of the board of Intel Corporation from May 1997 to May 2005. He was the company’s chief executive officer from 1987 to 1998 and its president from 1979 to 1997. (credit: Intel)
A survivor of the Nazi occupation of Hungary and a refugee escaping the brutal Soviet response to the Hungarian Revolution, Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grove has died at the age of 79. Grove was Intel's third employee, the first person to be hired by company founders Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. He became company president in 1979, CEO in 1987, and served as chairman of the board from 1997 to 2005.
Intel announced his death on Monday. No cause of death has been specified.
Born András István Gróf, Grove came to the US in 1957. He Americanized his name, married a fellow refugee named Eva, and earned first a bachelor's degree and then a PhD in chemical engineering. He worked for Fairchild Semiconductor, hired by and working under Gordon Moore. When Moore and Noyce left Fairchild to start Intel, Grove went with them as director of engineering.
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