Intel has elected Risa Lavizzo-Mourey to the company’s board of directors. Her election marks the fifth new independent director added to Intel’s board since the beginning of 2016.

Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey is a member of the boards of directors of General Electric and Hess. Previously, she served as a director at Genworth Financial and Beckman Coulter. She is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and the board of fellows of Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey has served as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PIK Professor of Population Health and Health Equity at the University of Pennsylvania since January 2018. From 2003 to 2017, she was the president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

In another development, the board also voted unanimously to extend Andy Bryant’s term as Intel chairman.

Mr. Bryant became Intel chairman in May 2012, and will stand for re-election at the company’s 2018 annual stockholders’ meeting. If elected, he will continue to serve as chairman until the conclusion of the company’s 2019 annual stockholders’ meeting.

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