Adjunct Professor: 

Lucas College and Graduate School of Business

College of Humanities & Arts

College of Information, Data & Society

San José State University
One Washington Square 
San José, CA 95192-0069

Education

UCLA Anderson School of Management: Executive MBA - Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Corp. Strategy - 2007

National University of Singapore, School of Business: Executive MBA - ASIA Marketing & Management - 2007

Cal Poly State University,SanLuisObispo: BSc Electronics/Computer Engineering (CumLaude & IEEE-HKN)- 1996

Licenses and Certificates

UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business: Executive Coaching Institute - Executive Coaching Certification - 2021

Stanford Graduate School of Business: Resident Executive Program - Leading Change & Org Renewal - 2010

Bio

Sumeet Syal is an entrepreneur, tech executive, and educator with 30+ years of global experience across large corporations and Silicon Valley startups. He is the founder of 3DOSHAS, an award-winning coaching platform featured on Bloomberg and Apple TV+, where he designs and hosts high-impact leadership workshops for premier Silicon Valley companies—including Google, Intel, and Palo Alto Networks—partnering with executives to build high-performing teams and resilient organizations. Most recently, Sumeet served as Vice President and General Manager at Intel Corporation, leading global sales, marketing, and technology alignment for Fortune 500 enterprises, hyperscalers, and AI service providers. He brings deep expertise in scaling new technologies and building strategic B2B partnerships across leading tech giants & enterprise verticals.

Sumeet started his career in engineering at Silicon Valley startups that were acquired by industry leaders. He then moved to Singapore, spearheading Intel's Asia-Pacific regional expansion and mastered Asian business practices & marketing as an expat. Later, he transitioned to product management, leading Intel's go-to-market strategy for smartphone & wearable products where his insights were featured in major publications like CNET, TechCrunch, and Business Insider. Sumeet then pivoted to business-focused roles and went on to become Intel's Vice President & GM of Global Sales & Marketing. In this role, he closed high-stakes negotiations, securing multi-billion-dollar deals with tech giants such as Google, Apple, Dell, and HP. Over the course of his executive career, he guided many global teams across sales, marketing, business development, product marketing, product management, and engineering.  

Sumeet is a passionate leader, consistently ranked among top Intel executives for transforming teams into high performing, resilient organizations. As a Stanford-trained executive in Leading Change & Organization Renewal and a UC Berkeley-Haas Certified Executive Coach, he now coaches Silicon Valley executives and their leadership teams. He serves as Adjunct Faculty teaching leadership & management of innovation at Santa Clara University’s (Graduate School of Engineering) and San José State University’s (Lucas Graduate School of Business). He holds dual MBAs from UCLA-Anderson and the National University of Singapore, and a BSc. in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly, SLO. Sumeet grew up in India’s Himalayas before moving to California. As a teen, he managed a McDonald’s, building a solid work ethic, and discovered his passion for tech through summer jobs at Fry’s Electronics.  Inspired by his heritage, he developed 3DOSHAS — a science based methodology to empower authentic leadership in building strengths-based, high-performing teams.

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Academic & Professional Experience
Founder & President, 3Doshas Executive Coaching & Consulting, San Francisco Bay Area, 2020 – Present

Adjunct Faculty, Graduate School of Engineering , Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 2025 – Present

Adjunct Faculty & Academic Program Owner, San José State University College of Information, Data & Society, San José, 2023 – Present

Vice President & GM, Global Sales & Marketing, Fortune 500 & AI as Service Providers, INTEL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 2023 – 2025

Managing Director & GM of Global Sales, Strategic Accounts (Apple, Google, Waymo) INTEL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, 2013 – 2023

Director of Marketing & Product Management, Infineon & Mobile Communications Group, INTEL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, 2008 – 2013

Asia Pacific Regional Director of Sales & Marketing, INTEL ASIA PTE LTD, SINGAPORE, SOUTH EAST ASIA, 2004 – 2008

Product Engineering & Product Business Development, Stanford Telecom, (Networking Startup acquired by Intel) San Jose, CA, 2000 – 2004

Product Engineering & Go-to-Market Programs, C-CUBE Microsystems, (Video/Media Startup acquired by Broadcom) Milpitas, CA, 1999 – 2000

Field Application Engineer & Rotation Program, Intel Sales & Marketing Group owning Dell Computers - Intel Corporation, Austin, TX 1996-1999

Selected Publications
"Intel Confirms Medfield x86 Chips Don’t Support LTE Yet — But Says It Won’t Be Long Coming" (TechCrunch.com) - Sept. 2012
"Intel reveals Quad-Core, LTE-capable mobile chips are on the way" (engadget.com) - Sept. 2012
"Inside Intel: Our Tour of the Company That Put The Silicon Valley in Silicon Valley" (businessinsider.com) - Feb. 2012