AMD - Leadership updates

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) announced that Ariel Kelman has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, effective immediately. Kelman will lead the AMD global marketing organization, overseeing brand, communications, events, developer relations and go-to-market strategy. Kelman will report to Ruth Cotter, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, and will work closely with the AMD executive team to deepen engagement with customers, partners, developers and the broader technology ecosystem as AMD continues to scale its product and solutions leadership. "Ariel is a proven marketing leader with deep experi

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced the appointment of KC McClure to its board of directors. McClure most recently served as a senior advisor to Accenture and was previously Chief Financial Officer of Accenture from 2019 to 2024. Throughout her more than 37-year tenure at Accenture, McClure held multiple finance and accounting leadership roles, including overseeing financial operations and investor relations. "We are delighted to welcome KC to AMD's Board of Directors," said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD chair and CEO. "KC is a proven finance leader whose operating expertise and global perspective will be an asset as we execute our strategy and exte

Jon Olson, current Board Member at AMD, Rocket Lab, and Kulicke & Soffa, and Eric Stang, CEO and Chairman of Ooma and current Board Member of Rambus, join Niron Magnetics' Board of Directors Niron Magnetics, the company manufacturing high-performance Iron Nitride permanent magnets made without rare earths, announced the appointment of Jon Olson and Eric Stang to its Board of Directors. Their deep experience in technology, finance, and scaling high-growth public and private companies will help guide Niron Magnetics' journey as it expands manufacturing, commercial operations, and global partnerships in preparation for future growth. "Niron Magnetics is entering a pivotal moment. We're sca

— AMD Ryzen™ AI Max, AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series and AMD Ryzen™ 200 Series processors bring incredible performance for next-gen AI PCs — — AMD Ryzen™ AI Max PRO, AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 PRO and AMD Ryzen™ 200 PRO Series processors bring cutting-edge performance to business PCs — LAS VEGAS, Jan. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) unveiled new processors today, ahead of CES 2025, furthering its leadership in the AI PC market and offering mobile users the most innovative PCs processors. AMD announced the new Ryzen™ AI Max Series processors, exceeding the demands for high-performance computing in premium thin and light notebooks; new Ryzen™ AI 300 Series "Zen-5"-based processors, rounding

Leading tech companies to collaborate on architectural interoperability and simplify software development across the ecosystem; luminaries Linus Torvalds and Tim Sweeney join founding members Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat. Intel Corp. (INTC) and AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced the creation of an x86 ecosystem advisory group bringing together technology leaders to shape the future of the world's most widely used computing architecture. x86 is uniquely positioned to meet customers' emerging needs by delivering superior performance and seamless interoperability across hardware and software platforms. The group will f

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced that Keith Strier has joined the company as senior vice president of global AI markets. Strier has more than 30 years of experience in strategic business and market development, technical engineering and enabling responsible AI deployments. He most recently served as vice president of worldwide AI initiatives at NVIDIA, with responsibility for expanding commercial engagements with foreign governments. At AMD, he will be responsible for expanding the company's AI vision, driving new ecosystem capabilities and accelerating strategic AI engagements globally across public and private sectors. He reports to

— Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Razer laptops powered by AMD Ryzen™ 8040 Series mobile processors to deliver advanced computing for work, play, and AI-enabled experiences — — Ryzen™ AI 1.0 Software available to make it easier to deploy models on Ryzen AI PCs — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) announced the new AMD Ryzen™ 8040 Series mobile processors, extending its leadership mobile offerings with best-in-class x86 processor performance.1 With the integrated Ryzen AI NPU on-die on select models, AMD is bringing even more state-of-the-art AI PCs to market,1 with up to 1.6x more AI processing performance than prior AMD models,2 to de

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer Darren Grasby will transition into a new role as executive vice president, strategic partnerships and that Phil Guido has joined the company as executive vice president and chief commercial officer. Guido will be responsible for leading the AMD worldwide sales organization with a focus on further accelerating adoption of the company's leadership products with commercial and data center customers. "I am excited to welcome Phil to our leadership team as we take the next steps in our journey to make AMD the commercial and data center compute partne

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced the appointment of five technical leaders to the role of AMD Corporate Fellow. These appointments recognize each leader's significant impact on semiconductor innovation across various areas, from graphics architecture to advanced packaging. David Blythe: A widely respected graphics architect with over three decades of industry experience. Blythe joined AMD in November 2022 after spending 13 years at Intel, most recently as its lead GPU architect. He architected several of the industry's most consequential graphics APIs for PCs, clients, workstations and mobile phones, including DirectX® 10 and 11 and

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) announced that John Caldwell is retiring from the AMD board of directors after 16 years of service. Nora Denzel will succeed Caldwell as lead independent director, effective immediately. Caldwell joined the AMD board of directors in 2006. He served as chairman from 2016 to 2022 and was named lead independent director earlier this year. He held a variety of committee positions throughout his tenure, including chair of the compensation and leadership resources committee and serving on the nominating and corporate governance committee. "On behalf of the AMD board of directors, I want to thank John for his outstanding le

SMART Global Holdings, Inc. ("SGH") (NASDAQ:SGH) today announced the appointment of Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer and executive vice president of technology and engineering at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), to its board of directors, effective August 22, 2022. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220822005723/en/SMART Global Holdings (SGH) today announced the appointment of Mark Papermaster, CTO and EVP of technology and engineering at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. to SGH's board of directors. (Photo: Business Wire) "We are pleased to have Mark join our board at SGH," commented Mark Adams, presid

HALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / August 17, 2022 / Meta Materials Inc. (the "Company" or "META®") (NASDAQ:MMAT), (FSE:MMAT), a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites, today announced the appointment of Mr. Jack Harding as Chair of the Board of Directors, effective August 16, 2022. Mr. Ram Ramkumar, META's current Chair, is retiring from the Board and moving into a Strategic Advisor role for a period of two years. The Company wishes to thank Mr. Ramkumar for his dedication during this transformative period which included among many milestones META's June 2021 listing on the NASDAQ via a reverse merger with Torchlight Energy Resources."Delivering innovation at scale is

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) announced the appointment of Nick Lazaridis to senior vice president, AMD Sales, responsible for managing sales across EMEA, India, and APJ. Lazaridis will report to AMD Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer (CSO) Darren Grasby. Lazaridis most recently served as president, EMEA for HP Inc. He is returning to AMD after previously leading Asia Pacific regional sales from 2009 to 2012. Lazaridis has over 30 years of high-tech business experience leading organizations across mature and emerging markets globally. "Nick's industry experience and wealth of knowledge of strategic global engagements will be instrum

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced that Mathew Hein is joining the company as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of corporate development, effective June 27, 2022. Hein will be responsible for advancing the company's strategy across an expanded market for high-performance and adaptive computing solutions and will work closely with the AMD executive team to accelerate the company's next phase of growth. Hein will report to AMD Chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su. "The need for high-performance and adaptive computing products is only increasing, as the world demands more compute to power every aspect of our daily lives," said Dr. Lis

– Following acquisition of Xilinx, AMD appoints Hasmukh Ranjan to Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer– SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced the appointment of Hasmukh Ranjan to AMD senior vice president and Chief Information Officer (CIO), effective immediately. Ranjan previously served as CIO at Xilinx. Ranjan leads the global IT organization, responsible for providing strategic oversight of corporate IT infrastructure; maintaining critical technology applications and systems; and delivering advanced solutions to enable more secure and productive business operations. Based in Santa Clara, California, Ranjan leads IT tea

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced the appointment of Senior Fellow and Server SoC (system on chip) Architect Kevin Lepak to AMD Corporate Fellow, in recognition of his critical role in the design of next-generation AMD EPYC™ processors. Lepak achieved an excellent record of overseeing the execution and delivery of leadership data center processors for AMD, including 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs and next generation AMD Instinct™ accelerators. As AMD Corporate Fellow, Lepak expands on his leadership in chip design to play a larger role in evolving AMD's processor and systems vision. "Kevin's technical contributions made undeniable posi

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 21, 2021 / AMPD Ventures Inc. ("AMPD" or the "Company")(CSE:AMPD)(FRA:2Q0) is pleased to announce the hiring of Wolfgang Stindl, a senior interactive and digital media business development professional with more than 25 years of experience to help establish and develop AMPD's presence in the European market. Mr. Stindl will be representing AMPD's high-performance computing at the edge solutions as Director of Sales & Business Development (Europe). AMPD specializes in providing high-performance computing and cloud solutions for next-generation applications including cutting-edge digital content creation, big data analysis and visualization, artificial intell