In 1997, El-Ouazzane joined Texas Instruments 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 WirelessBusiness Group before becoming the Vice President and Worldwide General Manager of the Open Multimedia Applications Platform Business Unit.
Notable Achievements at Texas Instruments
2009: Pioneered the first OMAP application processor for the Android platform and spearheaded the development of the OMAP 4 platform. The OMAP architecture powered many of the first notable Android smartphone devices such as the Motorola Droid line of phones and Galaxy Nexus smartphone co developed with Google and Samsung.
2012: Created a partnership with iRobot to develop robotic technologies using TI's OMAP architecture.
2012: Spearheaded a deal with global audio and infotainment group Harman to incorporate TI's OMAP 5 processors into premium automotive platforms.
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.
Notable Achievements at Movidius
2013: Built partnership with Google's Project Tango group.
2015: Raised $40 million in funding to accelerate adoption of Movidius technology.
2016: Closed deals with major technology companies including Google, DJI, FLIR Systems, and Lenovo, bringing Movidius technology to mainstream consumer devices.
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 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.
