Craig Barratt

Craig H. Barratt (born 12 May 1962) is an Australian technology executive who served as Chief Executive Officer at Barefoot Networks until its acquisition by Intel in July 2019.[1] Following the acquisition, and until his departure in May 2020, he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Connectivity Group under Intel's Data Platforms Group.[2]

Not to be confused with the former CEO of Intel, Craig Barrett (chief executive).
Craig Barratt
Craig Barratt opening NASDAQ market 2006
Born (1962-05-12) 12 May 1962
Sydney Australia
Education
Board member ofIntuitive Surgical

Barratt previously served as the CEO of Atheros from 2003, through its IPO in 2004 until its acquisition by Qualcomm in 2011.[3] He continued as President of Qualcomm Atheros upon the close of the acquisition in May 2011[4] until early 2013. Barratt then served as Senior Vice President, Access and Energy, at Google from 2012 until 2016.[5][6][7]

Open source software

Barratt is the author of BackupPC, an open source backup system. He is the author of the original version of PSfrag, a LaTeX package. He has also contributed to Rsync and other open source projects.

Education

Barratt holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney in Australia.[8] He completed high school at Barker College in 1979.

Barratt is the co-author of a book on Linear Controller Design, which is now freely available online.[9]

References
  1. "Ushering in the next era of growth". Barefoot Networks Blog. 7 February 2017.
  2. "Ex-Barefoot Networks CEO Leaves Intel Less Than Year After Acquisition". CRN. 9 July 2020.
  3. Ashlee Vance (5 January 2011). "Silicon Valley's Other Craig (Barratt) Cashes In". Businessweek.com.
  4. "Qualcomm Completes $3.1 Billion Acquisition of Atheros Communications - Qualcomm". Qualcomm.
  5. Rolfe Winkler and Alistair Barr (23 June 2014). "A New Face Near the Top of Google". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
  6. Alistair Barr (23 January 2015). "Google's Wireless Efforts Are Led by a Geek's Geek". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
  7. "Advancing Our Amazing Bet". Google Fiber Blog. 25 October 2016.
  8. "Intuitive Surgical - Board of Directors". intuitivesurgical.com.
  9. Boyd, Stephen P; Barratt, Craig H (1991), Linear controller design : limits of performance, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-538687-3
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