Rajiv Goel

Rajiv Goel was the Managing Director of Treasury Department in Intel and also the director of strategic investments at Intel Capital. In the year 2009 he was arrested for passing secret tips about his company to his friend Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire. He started to pass details regarding his company from the year 2005 onwards.

Goel confessed that in the year 2005 he received an amount of USD 100,000 from Rajartnam to buy a house and later on he also got around 500,000 for some family matter. He also said that after Rajaratnam took charge of his brokerage account, he earned more than USD 700,000.

In a telephonic conversation in the year 2008, Goel told Rajaratnam that Intel had plans to make an investment of USD I billion with Clearware, in a new venture.

Prior to his appointment in Intel, Goel worked for Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest business houses in India. He also served as a corporate Banker with Bank of America, based in San Francisco. He completed his MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he met Rajratnam.