About Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is a general partner at Playground Global, an early-stage venture capital fund. He has held this role since March 2025. He also serves as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo Holdings. In this role he oversees product, engineering and go-to-market strategy for Gloo AI, Gloo Workspace, Gloo Media Network and Gloo360. He has held this post since March 2025. He is executive chairman of the board at xLight Inc.
He began his career at Intel Corporation in 1979. He later returned to serve as its chief executive officer starting in February 2021. He was also chief executive officer of VMware. He is a board member at Powerlattice. Powerlattice is building a power delivery chiplet for AI hardware. He has been a director at Gloo Holdings since August 2016. He is also a board member at Snowcap Compute. Snowcap Compute is developing a superconducting computing platform for AI and data centers.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Pat Gelsinger in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Pat Gelsinger works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Pat Gelsinger in the News
Sources
- SECPowerlattice Technologies Inc Form D, filed Oct 30, 2026
- SECSnowcap Compute Inc. Form D, filed Oct 15, 2025
- SECxLight Inc. Form D, filed Aug 11, 2025
- SECForms 3, 4 and 5 filed by Pat Gelsinger (SEC filer 1316331)
- company_aboutPowerlattice — About (team page)
- press_releasePowerlattice — $25 million raise announcement
- sec_filingGloo Holdings, Inc. — S-1/A (2025-10-30)
- sec_filingGloo Holdings, Inc. — S-1/A (2026-07-06)
- company_aboutSnowcap Compute — llms.txt (official site summary)