Remi El-Ouazzane

Remi El-Ouazzane (born June 4, 1973) is a French businessman and embedded systems engineer who has led various initiatives in mobile computing, machine vision and embedded artificial intelligence. El-Ouazzane currently serves as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel. Formerly, El-Ouazzane served as CEO of Movidius prior to its acquisition by Intel.
Personal life & education.
El-Ouazzane was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on June 4, 1973. He was born to a Tunisian (Tozeur) father and French (Avallon) mother. El-Ouazzane grew up with three brothers in Épinay-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. In 1996, he obtained a master's degree in semiconductor physics engineering from Grenoble Institute of Technology. The following year, El-Ouazzane graduated in economics and finance from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies. In 2004, he graduated from Harvard Business School’s General Management (GMP) program. El-Ouazzane lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and two children.
Career.
Texas Instruments.
In 1997, El-Ouazzane joined Texas Instruments (TI) as part of the TI Young Leader Program. After graduating from the Young Leaders program, he has served in various business units within Texas Instruments, including the Broadband Communications Group and the Wireless Business Group before becoming the Vice President and Worldwide General Manager of the Open Multimedia Applications Platform (OMAP) Business Unit.
Movidius.
In early 2013, El-Ouazzane accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer of Movidius. After having repositioned the company in the fields of embedded machine vision and artificial intelligence, he has led the company's technology into products from companies like Google, Lenovo and DJI, as well as raising over $40 million in funding to accelerate adoption of Movidius technology.
Intel.
In November 2016, El-Ouazzane joined the New Technology Group at Intel following the acquisition of Movidius, assuming the role of Vice President. In this role, El-Ouazzane was responsible for continuing the engineering development, integration and commercial deployment of Movidius technologies.
In August 2018, El-Ouazzane assumed the role of vice president and chief operating officer of Intel's Artificial Intelligence Products Group (AIPG) where he is responsible for overseeing all engineering efforts in the group, including product management activities.
Awards.
In 2009, El-Ouazzane was selected as recipient of the French-American Foundation's Young Leaders Award.