Sodhani will retire at the start of 2016, and will be replaced by Wendell Brooks in a move that will merge Intel's venture capital and M&A activities.
Arvind Sodhani will retire as head of Intel Capital, semiconductor technology company Intel’s corporate venturing unit, in January 2016, the company announced today.
Sodhani, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium in June this year, joined Intel in 1981 and helped form Intel Capital, one of the earliest dedicated corporate venturing units, in 1991, before taking over as president in 2005.
Intel Capital has invested more than $11.4bn in a total of over 1,400…