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10 AMD engineering leaders
These ten current and former AMD engineering leaders, including AMD's CTO, hold or have held executive vice president, senior vice president, corporate vice president, vice president and senior director roles in engineering at AMD. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams at AMD.
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01—10Al Loper
LinkedInExperience: Corp. VP - Silicon Design Engineering · AMD
Corp. VP - Silicon Design Engineering at AMD since January 2025, a role the profile lists in the engineering and technical department at president/vice president level. Former VP and General Manager, Advanced Architecture Development Group, Intel at Intel (2021–2024) and former President at Centaur Technology (2019–2021).
Alex Seibulescu
LinkedInExperience: Corporate VP, Silicon Design Engineering · AMD
Corporate VP, Silicon Design Engineering at AMD since September 2025, a role the profile lists in the engineering and technical department at president/vice president level. Former Sr. Director Software Development at AMD (2022–2026), and former VP Compiler Engineering (2021–2022) and Sr. Director Compiler Engineering (2019–2021) at AMD Pensando.
Chris Klement
LinkedInExperience: Corporate Vice President - SOC Design Engineering · AMD
Corporate Vice President - SOC Design Engineering at AMD since August 2026, based in Toronto, Ontario. The profile also lists Sr. SOC Design Director at AMD as a current role dated from July 2022, and a separate SOC Design Director at AMD row dated from 2000 to 2022.
Kaishan Sun
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · AMD
Vice President of Engineering at AMD since January 2023; the profile says the role shapes engineering strategy and execution planning in alignment with corporate priorities and product direction. Former Senior Director of Engineering at AMD (2019–2023), and former Senior Director, System Architecture (2016–2019) and Director, Compute Platforms (2012–2016) at Qualcomm.
Mark Fuselier
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Technology and Product Engineering · AMD
Senior Vice President, Technology and Product Engineering at AMD since January 2021; the profile says the role leads the global engineering team responsible for the definition, development and production ramp of AMD's technologies and products. Former Corporate Vice President, Foundry Technology and Product Engineering (2018–2021) and Corporate Vice President, AMD Global Sourcing (2015–2018) at AMD.
Mark Papermaster
LinkedInExperience: CTO and EVP · AMD
CTO and EVP at AMD since January 2019, and former CTO, and SVP Technology and Engineering at AMD (2011–2019); the profile describes overseeing corporate technical direction and product development. Former VP, Silicon Engineering at Cisco (2010–2011) and SVP, Devices HW Engineering at Apple (2008–2010).
Mats Matsuo
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, GPU & Engineering for Accelerated Computing · AMD
Sr. Director, GPU & Engineering for Accelerated Computing at AMD since September 2023. Former Sr. Director, Radeon Technologies Group (2018–2023), Director, GPU APU Design (2011–2018) and Sr. Manager, GPU APU Design (2006–2011) at AMD, and former Manager, Physical Design & CAD at ATI (2004–2006).
Nazar Zaidi
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President AI Solutions Engineering · AMD
Senior Vice President AI Solutions Engineering at AMD since April 2025. Former Senior Vice President Server Processor & Technology (2020–2025) and Corporate Vice President Design Engineering (2016–2019) at AMD, and former VP Engineering, Embedded Processors, ING at Broadcom (2012–2015).
Prashant Shamarao
LinkedInExperience: Corporate Vice President, Silicon Design Engineering · AMD
Corporate Vice President, Silicon Design Engineering at AMD since June 2026, and Sr. Director Silicon Engineering at AMD, a current role dated from December 2019. The profile says Prashant Shamarao leads the engineering team responsible for custom ASIC/SOC development in AMD's Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group. Former Vice President of Product Development, Consumer IOT Division at Synaptics at Synaptics Incorporated (2016–2019).
Terry Richardson
LinkedInExperience: Semi-Custom Chief Engineer, Senior Director Design Engineering · AMD
Former Semi-Custom Chief Engineer, Senior Director Design Engineering at AMD (2016–2024), and Corporate Vice President at AMD since July 2024, a role the profile describes as CVP, Silicon Design Engineering - S3 Chief Engineering and CG/VDI Lead. Former Semi-Custom SoC Architect, Senior Member Technical Staff at AMD (2014–2015).
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- 01How does a chipmaker split engineering ownership between central technology teams and product business groups?
- 02What does it take to move a new processor design from definition to production ramp on schedule?
- 03How do semiconductor engineering leaders decide where to build custom silicon versus reuse existing designs?
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