[email protected]
As chair and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Dr. Lisa T. Su led the transformation of AMD into the high-performance and adaptive computing leader, and one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies in the world. Prior to serving as chair and CEO, she was the chief operating officer responsible for integrating AMD’s 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 company’s embedded communications and applications processor business. Dr. Su joined Freescale in 2007 as chief technology officer, where she led the company’s technology roadmap and research and development efforts.
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 IBM’s 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 bachelor’s, master’s 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 Association’s 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 President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She has been a member of the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Inc., since January 2020 and also serves on the board of directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Videos
News
Related Speakers View all
Cynthia Marshall
CEO of the Dallas Mavericks; President & CEO, Marsha...
|
|
Sylvia Acevedo
Engineer, Rocket Scientist & Technology Leader; Insp...
|
|
Stacy Brown-Philpot
Fortune 100 Board Director, Investor & Advisor; Form...
|
|
Sara Blakely
Founder & CEO of SPANX, Innovative Entrepreneur, Wom...
|
|
Jennifer Hyman
Award-Winning Co-Founder & CEO of Rent the Runway, G...
|
|
Barbara Corcoran
Real Estate Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Author & C...
|
|
Reshma Saujani
Lawyer, Politician, Founder of Girls Who Code & Mars...
|
|
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury
Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard University & Former...
|
|
Marc Randolph
Entrepreneur, Netflix Co-Founder, National Best-Sell...
|
|
Mary Barra
CEO of General Motors; First Female CEO of a Major G...
|
|
Jean Case
Chair of National Geographic Society, CEO of the Cas...
|
|
Ursula Burns
First Black Woman to Serve as CEO of A Fortune 500 C...
|
|
Clara Shih
CEO of Salesforce AI, Board Director & Entrepreneur;...
|
|
Angela Ahrendts
Former SVP of Retail at Apple & Former CEO of Burberry
|
|
Daymond John
"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presid...
|
|
Carly Fiorina
Businesswoman, First Woman to Lead a Fortune Top 20 ...
|
|
Lisa Bodell
Founder & CEO of FutureThink, Best-Selling Author of...
|
|
Beth Ford
President & CEO of Land O'Lakes and First Openly Gay...
|
|
Leanne Caret
President and CEO of Defense, Space & Security; Exec...
|
|
Vicki Hollub
President & CEO of Occidental Petroleum
|