Markus Weingartner, Dipl.-Ing. (MSc equiv.)

Markus Weingartner joined Intel in 2000 as a technical marketing engineer, advising software companies on getting the most out of new processor architectures. Two years later he moved into communications and stayed.

Over the next fifteen years he worked on product and technology communications, international media relations and the company's global flagship events. He spent six months at headquarters in California, directing Intel's global manufacturing communications.

From 2017 he was EMEA Communications Director, with full budget and personnel responsibility. In 2023 he was tasked with building corporate and employee communications for EMEA around the European investment program, a function the region had not had before.

For almost two decades he spoke for the company to the technology press, and in later years also to international business and news media, and on television.

Executive level and recognition

In 2025 Markus Weingartner was promoted to Intel's executive level.

• 2020Intel First Response AwardFor coordinating global crisis communications in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
• 2014Worldwide Marketing AwardFor creating and leading Intel's first global Future Showcase
• 2007Intel Achievement AwardThe company's highest honor, for the Intel Core launch communications

How he works

Markus Weingartner leads each engagement himself and brings in partners where a project needs hands on the ground. He can work alongside a client's own team and existing agencies, or on his own.

His engineering background lets him talk to engineers and technology leads in their own language. Twenty-four years inside a global company have taught him how decisions are actually made in large organizations, and who needs to be on board before anything goes public.

At Intel his work took him through most of Europe and the wider EMEA region, and well beyond it, from headquarters in California to press programs in China. Weingartner Advisory keeps working that way, on site wherever a project needs it.

Career

• Since 2026Founder and PrincipalWeingartner Advisory
• 2017 to 2026EMEA Communications DirectorIntel, from 2023 with corporate and employee communications
• 2002 to 2017Communications ManagerIntel, roles in EMEA, the US and global teams
• 2000 to 2002Technical Marketing Engineer EMEAIntel

Education and languages

Dipl.-Ing. (MSc equivalent) in electrical engineering, data and information technology, Munich University of Applied Sciences. German and English.