Intel Corporation announced that at the company's Jan. 15 board meeting Andy D. Bryant stepped down as chairman and the board elected lead independent director. Dr. Omar Ishrak to succeed Bryant as an independent chairman, effective immediately. Intel also announced that Alyssa Henry was elected to Intel's board. Her election marks the seventh new independent director added to Intel's board since the beginning of 2016. Andy Bryant serves on the Intel Corporation board of directors and as an executive advisor to the company. From May 2012 to January 2020, Bryant served as chairman of the board of directors. Bryant will remain on the board through the end of Intel's 2020 annual stockholders' meeting. He had previously notified the board in March 2019 that he did not intend to stand for re-election at this year's meeting. Bryant made the decision to leave the role now in order to facilitate an effective transition. Henry, 49, has served as seller lead for Square Inc. since 2014. She oversees global engineering, product management, design, sales, marketing, partnerships and support for Square's seller-facing software and financial services products. Prior to Square, she served in various positions with Amazon.com Inc. from 2006 to 2014, including as vice president of Amazon Web Services Storage Services, where she led services including Amazon S3, Amazon EBS and Amazon Lambda; and as Amazon's director of software development for ordering, with responsibility for Amazon's ordering workflow software and databases.