Pat Gelsinger is a semiconductor executive who served as chief executive officer of Intel until December 2024 and, on April 24, 2026, took the role of executive chairman and head of technology at Gloo Holdings, a Boulder, Colorado–based publicly-traded company selling AI products to churches, congregations, and Christian-aligned businesses.
Roles
Gelsinger was CEO of Intel until December 2024, when he was ousted as part of the company's turnaround and restructuring.
On April 24, 2026, Gelsinger publicly took the role of executive chairman and head of technology at Gloo Holdings, a Boulder, Colorado–based publicly-traded company selling AI products to churches, congregations, and Christian-aligned businesses (Source: theinformation.com). The Information framed its coverage of the move around the question "Should AI and Christianity mix?", reflecting media attention to faith-aligned AI as a product category. The move is one data point in religious civil-society engagement with AI.
His departure from Intel coincided in timing with the company's April 24, 2026 stock movement, when shares rose 23.6 percent in a single day, the largest single-day gain since October 1987, leaving the stock up 124 percent year-to-date and past its 2000 dot-com peak; Gelsinger laid the groundwork for the turnaround as CEO.
Relationships
- led: Intel (until Dec 2024)
- leads: Gloo Holdings
- related: Religious and Civil-Society Voices on AI, AI Hardware Devices, Intel