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Shreekant (Ticky) Thakkar is a VP and Fellow of Core Technologies in the Chief Technologist’s Office of HP Inc.'s Printing & Personal Systems Group, where he is responsible for driving common positions on technology roadmaps, providing investment options on key disruptive technologies, and partnering with HP Labs and HP’s supply chain organizations in early-stage technology assessments. A visionary and leader in the convergence of technologies with nearly three decades of industry experience, Ticky combines a strong technical background with experience working with customers and in product groups to bring new thinking for the development of innovative products and technology roadmaps. He also serves as a mentor for HP technicians and managers and helps drive HP’s technical leadership development. 

Ticky brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this position. Before joining HP, he was a Fellow and Chief Systems Architect at Intel Corp., where he pioneered and led architecture development of seven generations of Intel smartphone and tablets, including the company’s work on mobile system scalability, architecting tools to accelerate the development of Intel architecture-based platforms for Android. 

Prior to that he was Chief Platform Architect and pioneered the thin and light Centrino Laptop platforms. He joined Intel as the P6 (Pentium Pro) Multiprocessor architect that became Intel Xeon (server) family. He held several architecture and engineering management positions at Intel in the areas of multiprocessor, CPU, mobile computing, low power architecture, smartphone and tablet platforms. 

Ticky holds more than 70 patents and has published 29 technical papers. He received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Statistics from University College, London, and his master’s and doctorate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Manchester.