Tuesday, August 28, 2018

AMD Announces Client Compute Leadership Updates

To further focus on its significant client computing growth opportunities, AMD today named Saeid Moshkelani as senior vice president and general manager, Client Compute Group, effective immediately. Moshkelani will lead all aspects of product strategy, management and engineering for AMD client computing products and solutions and will report to AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. In addition, Darren Grasby, senior vice president of global Computing and Graphics sales and AMD president for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) will also now report directly to Dr. Su. AMD also announced that Jim Anderson, senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics business group, has decided to leave the company to pursue other opportunities.

"We see significant opportunities to continue gaining share and accelerate our growth in the client processor market based on the strength of our premium AMD Ryzen product portfolio and our long-term roadmaps,” said Su. “Saeid and Darren are the right leaders to combine our product leadership with strong and strategic customer relationships as we enter our next phase of growth in the client PC market. I am grateful to Jim for his many contributions to AMD and wish him the very best as he begins a new chapter in his career.”