Diane M. Bryant ’85

Headshot of Diane Bryant, UC Davis Chancellor's Board of Advisors

Position Title
Chair, Chancellor’s Board of Advisors

Bio

Diane M. Bryant is a global technology leader with more than three decades of executive leadership in the global semiconductor industry, cloud computing services, artificial intelligence applications, and technology-based healthcare solutions. 

Bryant served as the Chairman and CEO of NovaSignal, a medical technology and data company focused on brain health. Applying robotics, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, cerebral vascular data is obtained, enabling diagnosis of stroke and other illnesses of the brain. Bryant raised three rounds of VC funding and exited with a sale of the company in 2023. 

Prior, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Google Cloud, where she focused on accelerating the scale and reach of Google Cloud’s business, including industry engagement, customer adoption, enterprise cloud strategy, and global supply chain. Diane was also responsible for Alphabet’s information technology organization. 

Prior to Google, Bryant spent 32 years at Intel, the last five years as Group President of Intel’s Data Center Group, the worldwide organization that develops server, storage and network platforms for the digital services economy, growing it to $19 billion in revenue in 2017. Before becoming Group President, Bryant was Intel’s Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer, responsible for the corporate-wide information technology solutions and services that enable Intel’s business. 

Bryant was elected to the Broadcom Inc. board of directors in January 2019 and serves on the compensation committee. She was elected to the Haemonetics Corp. board of directors in 2023 and serves on the compensation and technology committees. Diane served on the United Technologies Corp (UTC) board of directors from 2016 to 2020 and was a member of the audit and finance committees. She is also the chair of the UC Davis Chancellor’s Board of Advisors. 

Bryant was named among Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2015 and 2016 and is a tireless advocate for women and underrepresented minorities in the fields of engineering and technology. She established the Diane Bryant Engineering Student Center at UC Davis, and the Diane Bryant STEM Innovation Center at the American River Community College. In 2020, Becker’s Heathcare named Diane one of 7 “shaker and mover” leaders affecting health IT. Business Insider ranked Ms. Bryant #6 among the Most Powerful Female Engineers in 2018. In 2016, World Affairs and its Global Philanthropy Forum honored Ms. Bryant with its Global Citizen Award. 

Bryant received her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UC Davis in 1985. She attended Stanford Graduate School of Business, completing the Executive Program in 2011. Bryant holds four U.S. patents in mobile computing.

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