Lisa Su

Lisa Su
President and Chief Executive Officer
AMD

Dr. Lisa Su is AMD’s president and chief executive officer and also serves on the company’s board of directors. Previously, she was 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’s products and solutions.

She joined AMD from Freescale Semiconductor, Inc and held prior roles at IBM, where she spent 13 years in various engineering and business leadership positions, as well as Texas Instruments.

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 (IEEE) in 2009. She serves on the Board of Directors for Analog Devices, the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

Dr. Su was named one of 2015’s “Most Powerful Women Engineers in the World” by BusinessInsider, “2014 Executive of the Year” at the EETimes and EDN 2014 ACE Awards, a China National Radio 2014 “Outstanding Figure, and was honored in MIT Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators in 2002. She recently spoke about diversity at the Clinton Foundation “No Ceilings” event, as well as the 2015 IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference.