Omar S. Ishrak (born 1955) is a Bangladeshi-American business executive, serving as the chairman of the board for

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

, since January 2020. He was previously the

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and chairman of the board of

Medtronic Medtronic plc is an American-Irish medical device company. The company's legal and executive headquarters are in Republic of Ireland, Ireland, while its operational headquarters are in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medtronic rebased to I ...

from June 2011 to April 2020, and remained as executive chairman and chairman of its board of directors until December 2020.

Biography

Ishrak was born and raised in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...

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. He did his schooling at St. Joseph Higher Secondary School in Dhaka. He studied at

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and was awarded a

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in electrical engineering and a

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in electrical engineering from the

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. Before joining Medtronic, he served as the president and CEO of GE Healthcare Systems. Omar has been a member of the Intel board of directors since March 2017. He was announced the independent chairman of its board in January 2020. In 2020, Ishrak was elected as a member of the

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for "contributions to diagnostic ultrasound and for leadership in medical technology innovation and globalization." In 2021 he joined

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's board of directors.

Personal life

He is married, and lives in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ishrak, Omar Living people Alumni of the University of London Alumni of King's College London Fellows of King's College London 1956 births Alumni of St. Joseph Higher Secondary School