Leslie L. Vadasz joined Intel in 1968 as part of the founding team;, he held various engineering and general management positions. He was elected to Intel’s BOD in 1988. He retired in June, 2003 as an Executive Vice President of Intel Corporation and President, Intel Capital. He retired from the Board in June 2004. Vadasz served on the Presidential Advisory Committee for Information Technology (PITAC) from 1997 to 2002, and on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council from 1991 to 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1977 for "leadership in the development of semiconductor memories and microcomputer components."He graduated from McGill University, with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in EE in 1961; and completed AMP at Harvard Business School in 1990. Prior to joining Intel, he worked at Transitron Corporation and Fairchild Semiconductor Company.