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WOMEN CEO REPORT
As chair and chief executive officer at AMD, Dr. Lisa Su has led the companys transformation into the industrys high-performance and adaptive computing leader, helping solve the world’s most important challenges by delivering the next-generation of computing and AI solutions. Prior to serving as chair and CEO, she was the chief operating officer responsible for integrating AMDs business units, sales, global operations and infrastructure enablement teams into a single market-facing organization responsible for all aspects of product strategy and execution. Dr. Su joined AMD in January 2012 as senior vice president and general manager, global business units and was responsible for driving end-to-end business execution of AMD products and solutions.
Prior to joining AMD, Dr. Su served as senior vice president and general manager, Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (a semiconductor manufacturing company) and was responsible for global strategy, marketing and engineering for the companys embedded communications and applications processor business. Dr. Su joined Freescale in 2007 as chief technology officer, where she led the companys technology roadmap and research and development efforts.
AMD is at our best when we are taking bold, calculated risks and aggressively pursuing the leading-edge technologies that change the world.
Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Su spent the previous 13 years at IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, including vice president of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center responsible for the strategic direction of IBMs silicon technologies, joint development alliances and semiconductor R&D operations. Prior to IBM, she was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments Inc. in the Semiconductor Process and Device Center from 1994 to 1995.
Dr. Su has bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has published more than 40 technical articles and was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers in 2009. In 2018, Dr. Su was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and received the Global Semiconductor Associations Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. In 2020, Fortune named Dr. Su #2 on its Business Person of the Year list, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science, and received the Grace Hopper Technical Leadership Abie Award. In 2021, she was recognized by the IEEE with its highest semiconductor honor, the Robert N. Noyce Medal, and was appointed by President Biden to the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). She continues to serve on PCAST, is a member of the board of directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association, a member of the Business Roundtable and is on the Department of Homeland Securitys Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board.
