Craig H. Barratt (born 12 May 1962) is an Australian technology executive who served as Chief Executive Officer at Barefoot Networks until its acquisition by Intel in July 2019.[1] Following the acquisition, and until his departure in May 2020, he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Connectivity Group under Intel's Data Platforms Group.[2]
Barratt previously served as the CEOofAtheros from 2003, through its IPO in 2004 until its acquisition by Qualcomm in 2011.[3] He continued as President of Qualcomm Atheros upon the close of the acquisition in May 2011[4] until early 2013. Barratt then served as Senior Vice President, Access and Energy, at Google from 2012 until 2016.[5][6][7]
Barratt is the author of BackupPC, an open source backup system. He is the author of the original version of PSfrag, a LaTeX package. He has also contributed to Rsync and other open source projects.
Barratt holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney in Australia.[8] He completed high school at Barker College in 1979.
Barratt is the co-author of a book on Linear Controller Design, which is now freely available online.[9]
