Bret Gustafson

Business Strategy & Marketing at Altera Corporation

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Business Strategy Lead, AI Inference & SatCom at Altera
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Lead segment strategy, business health, and growth for two of Altera's emerging markets: LLM inference in the data center and satellite communications. Own the commercial thesis across both segments, shaping silicon and IP roadmap investment, building the partner ecosystem, and developing executive-level customer relationships that convert market opportunity into design wins and long-range revenue.

  • Intel Corporation (3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Strategic Wireless Business Developer
      Aug 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Network Business Division, Wireless Business Unit. Responsible for Fronthaul Gateway and vRAN business. Timing Specialization - defined Intel PTP Servo GTM strategy. Authored papers on mMIMO, PTP 1588, OpenRAN Radios, Chiplet Transceiver Networking. 2x Intel FPGA Day Conference Speaker. Managed BUs top opportunities and yearly Long Range Plan (LRP).

    • Application Engineer
      Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Intel’s PSG rotational program is a development program. Within the rotation program Emerging Professionals (EPs) have the opportunity to rotate throughout PSG’s organizations. 1st Rotation: Product Marketing under Chief of Staff for initiative Workload 360; led multidisciplinary team in defining a winning 5G radio sales strategy through field research, benchmarking, playbook creation, and an external whitepaper. 2nd Rotation: Military Systems Solution Engineer; contributed to development, testing, and user guide for demo designs showcasing IP in customer use cases. Designs in MATLAB and Quartus. 3rd Rotation: Technical Strategic Business Development: A research effort to better understand FPGAs applicability in cloud-based acceleration deployments. Built a front-end interface to host disaggregated Kubernetes containers run on FPGA accelerator nodes (AI/ML, Compression, Storage, Memory). Design in Python and JavaScript

  • Product Development Technical Intern at Intel Corporation
    Jul 2020 - Jan 2021 · 7 mos

    NSG Data Center Optane Division; Automated performance (Bandwidth/IOPS) benchmark and analysis for symmetric and asymmetric workloads on next gen Optane dual port SSD. Programming in Python and Bash. Contributed to Power, Performance, and Temperature Team’s git repository. Worked with System Engineering teams to provide automated test case gap coverage. Completed numerous trainings and certifications.

  • Hardware Engineer Intern at Hughes
    Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 · 4 mos

    Worked one on one along side Linda Irish, Senior Principle Hardware Engineer, in designing/programming a Power Amplifier Test Board and Power Monitor Board. Simulations in LTSpice. Schematic/Board Layout in KiCAD. Consisted of 84 unique components ranging from an ADC, DAC, MCU, BLE. Contributed to newest product’s DVT testing.

  • DoorDash Driver at DoorDash
    Sep 2016 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Delivered orders on demand in Bay Area. Worked as an independent contractor practicing customer and vendor relations.