Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Dirk Meyer is president and chief executive officer of AMD and also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Prior to his being named CEO in 2008, Meyer served as president and chief operating officer of AMD, a role in which he shared leadership and management of AMD with Executive Chairman of the Board Hector Ruiz. From 2001 to 2006, Meyer led the company’s microprocessor business, overseeing related R&D, manufacturing, operations and marketing. His leadership during these five years resulted in a doubling of revenue for the microprocessor business and a substantial expansion of AMD’s global profile. Meyer joined AMD in 1995 and led engineering for the AMD Athlon™ microprocessor. In April 1999, he was promoted to vice president of engineering. In 2001, he was named group vice president and general manager of AMD's microprocessor business and in 2002 was named senior vice president and an executive officer of AMD. Prior to AMD, Meyer spent nearly a decade at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was co-architect of the Alpha 21064 and 21264 microprocessors. As one of the world’s leading microprocessor design innovators, Meyer was presented with the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Maurice Wilkes Award at the 2003 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Meyer graduated from the University of Illinois, where he received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. He also received a master's degree in business administration from Boston University.

Ahmed Mahmoud is the Chief Information Officer of AMD, and is responsible for managing the company's global technology infrastructure to best meet internal needs and serve AMD's customers.

Emilio Ghilardi is senior vice president and chief sales officer of AMD. He is responsible for leading the company’s global sales organization, which manages AMD’s customer relationships to drive worldwide revenue and profitability growth. Ghilardi joined AMD in 2008, bringing more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience in the IT industry. He was previously senior vice president and general manager for AMD EMEA, responsible for driving revenue and profit growth in the EMEA region, while managing all regional sales and marketing activities. He assumed his current position in January 2009. Prior to joining AMD, Ghilardi was vice president and general manager of HP’s EMEA Consumer Go-to-Market Business Unit, managing a multi-billion dollar consumer PC and imaging and printing business. Prior to that position, Ghilardi was vice president and general manager responsible for HP’s EMEA Commercial Printing and Imaging categories as well as the vice president and general manager responsible for HP’s EMEA Consumer PC Product categories. Ghilardi, who joined HP in 1982, served as chairman of HP Italy’s Board of Directors from 2001 through 2008 in addition to holding several other management positions during his 25-year tenure at HP. Ghilardi holds a master’s degree in electronic engineering from Italy’s Politecnico di Torino. He resides in Austin, Texas.

Tom is Executive Vice President, Legal Affairs. His current leadership responsibilities include legal, corporate strategy and development, international policy, government and community affairs. During his tenure at AMD, he has also had leadership responsibility for human resources, public relations and information technology. Tom joined AMD in January 1995, and was Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary until 2003. Prior to AMD, he spent 17 years at O'Melveny & Myers, one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the U.S., where he specialized in business litigation. Tom holds an undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Southern California. He clerked for the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, served on the board of directors of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and co-founded the California General Counsel’s Association. He is a frequent speaker on the principles and responsibilities of leadership.

Fred Weber is currently President and CEO of MetaRAM, a venture backed fables semiconductor startup focusing on bringing added value to the memory subsystems of servers, storage systems and network equipment. He spent the last 10 years at AMD helping to bring real competition to the microprocessor market with products like the AMD Athlon and AMD Opteron. At AMD Fred held positions of Vice President of Design and Chief Technical Officer. Prior to AMD Fred worked at several influential startups including Encore Computer, Kendall Square Research and Nexgen. He holds a BA in Physics from Harvard University and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Randy Allen is senior vice president, Computing Solutions Group, AMD. Reporting to President and COO Dirk Meyer, Allen is responsible for the development and management of AMD’s broad and growing portfolio of consumer and commercial microprocessor solutions and platforms. Previously, Allen served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager for AMD’s Server and Workstation Business. In this role, Randy led AMD’s server business’ financial performance, business planning, silicon and platform planning, product management, and brand management. Prior to that, Allen was AMD’s vice president for Design Engineering where he was responsible for the silicon design engineering of AMD’s microprocessor and chipset products. Allen joined AMD in 1984, and during his more than twenty-year career with the company, he has led several teams, including the implementation team of the AMD Athlon™ microprocessor and the design team for the AMD Opteron™ and AMD Athlon™ 64 microprocessor and associated chipsets. Previous to AMD, Allen worked as a design engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked for the HP3000 Business Computer development team. Allen earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Chekib Akrout is the general manager of AMD’s Technology Group, whose mission is to develop innovative and breakthrough technologies for AMD’s next generation products and platforms. He is responsible for managing advanced research and development, long-term technology roadmap, CPU core developments, process & circuit technology, and tools & IP/SoC design methodology. Before joining AMD in 2008, Akrout worked at Freescale Semiconductor as vice president and general manager of the Networking System Division where he focused on networking multi-core and Digital Signal Processing, driving processor competitiveness in the networking markets. Prior to Freescale, he spent 23 years at IBM, serving as director of high-speed and broadband microprocessor development in IBM’s Microelectronics Division, and was responsible for PowerPC processors used in Apple Macintosh and Nintendo Game Cube platforms. He later became vice president of Entertainment and Embedded Processor Development and was responsible for the Cell Project developed through a Sony/Toshiba/IBM partnership as well as Xbox 360 processor development for Microsoft and embedded PowerPC processors cores for SoC. Akrout holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University Pierre & Marie Curie in France, and a doctorate in electronics and physics.