Luis Gimenez Biography

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January 27, 2009 11:00 PM PST


Luis Gimenez is a Platform Architect at Intel’s Visual Computing Group. Since join Intel in 1991, Gimenez has held technical and management positions including manager of Information Technology Innovation and Research for Americas and manager of the Americas Region IT. Luis participated in several factory start-ups, he built the IT organization for Intel Costa Rica. In 2000 Gimenez won an Intel Achievement Award for setting a new standard on downtime and speed for SAP upgrades worldwide, and in 2005 he won the IT Excellence Award for the work in the IT Intel Innovation Centre. Luis also teaches “Managing IT for Business Value” at the University of California Davis.

Prior to joining Intel, Gimenez worked for Mercedes Benz in R&D in Germany and Argentina and for the Argentina’s nuclear program.

Gimenez holds a title of Electronic Engineer from the University of Mendoza Argentina, an MBA and Masters on Economics from ESEADE Argentina, and a Masters of International Management from Thunderbird Arizona.