Andrew S. Grove was a Hungarian-born American engineer, business executive and author who played a central role in the growth of Intel. Born András Gróf in Budapest to a Jewish family, he survived Nazi occupation and later fled Hungary following the 1956 uprising. He reached the United States in 1957, studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York and earned a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

Grove joined Fairchild Semiconductor before becoming Intel’s first employee in 1968, working alongside founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. He became Intel president in 1979, chief executive in 1987 and chairman in 1997. During his leadership, Intel shifted its emphasis from memory chips towards microprocessors and became a major force in personal computing. Grove also wrote influential books on management, including High Output Management and Only the Paranoid Survive, and became widely associated with disciplined management and strategic adaptation.