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As vice president of strategic planning and worldwide marketing, Chad Taggard leads the long-range strategic planning and corporate business development for IDT. Additionally Taggard is responsible for IDT’s worldwide marketing efforts promoting and communicating the IDT brand presence to target audiences.
Taggard brings 18 years of high tech experience to IDT. Prior to IDT Taggard worked at Intel Corporation in a variety of roles allowing him to focus on the communications and computing segments. In both general manager and director positions Taggard’s responsibilities included product marketing and development strategic planning and selling manufacturing operations business development media and analyst relations 3rd party alliances channel programs and marcom activities. These activities covered a broad line of Ethernet silicon and boards LAN-on-motherboard components DSL cable v.90 home networking (802.11 HPNA HomeRF) microprocessor and chipset products. Prior to joining Intel Mr. Taggard worked at Hewlett-Packard Corporation as a software engineer.
Taggard received his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and his Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University. | 