10 AMD operations directors
Director of External Manufacturing Operations and Director, Test Operations are among the roles held by these ten AMD operations directors at AMD. A reader can learn how operations directors work at AMD from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Dave Calder
LinkedInExperience: Director of Board Operations Engineering · AMD
Dave Calder has been Director of Board Operations Engineering at AMD since June 2026, and their headline reads Manufacturing and Engineering Leader. They were Sr. Manager Board Operations at AMD (2017–2026), and Director of Customer Quality (2014–2016) and OEM Quality Manager (2004–2014) at NVIDIA, and the listing places them in Austin, Texas.
Dike Iroha
LinkedInExperience: Director of NPI Planning & Operations · AMD
Dike Iroha has been Director of NPI Planning & Operations at AMD since March 2026, and the listing places them in Austin, Texas. They were Global Supply Management Leader at Amazon Web Services (2023–2026) and held Azure and Surface planning and program management roles at Microsoft (2016–2023), and their headline describes an operations and supply chain leader.
Eamon O'Keeffe
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Board Operations · AMD
Eamon O'Keeffe has been Sr. Director, Board Operations at AMD since October 2017, and their headline reads Head of Board Operations @ AMD. They were Vice President, Operations & Supply Chain at Juicero (2016–2017), Vice President, Manufacturing & Supply Chain at Coin, Inc. (2014–2016) and Director of Manufacturing, Asia at Sling Media (2006–2012).
Gayathri Bhandarkar
LinkedInExperience: Director, Foundry Technology Operations · AMD
Gayathri Bhandarkar has been Director, Foundry Technology Operations at AMD since June 2026, and their About section describes working with the foundries to meet milestones and schedules on very visible products. They were Sr. Manager, Foundry technology Operations (2022–2026), Fab Technology Product Owner (2016–2022) and Product Implementation Manager (2012–2015) at AMD.
German Ham
LinkedInExperience: Director of Business Operations [DataCenter GPU] · AMD
German Ham has been Director of Business Operations [DataCenter GPU] at AMD since October 2024, and the listing places them in Greater Sacramento. They were Director of Business Execution [DataCenter AI] (2023–2024), Supply Chain Director [Data Center AI] (2021–2023) and Strategic Program Manager [Global Supply Chain] (2020–2021) at Intel.
Jeff Takahashi
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Business Operations · AMD
Jeff Takahashi has been Director Of Business Operations at AMD since January 2019, and the listing places them in San Jose, California. They were Business Operation Leader, North America at Xilinx (2016–2018), Director of Business Operations at Synaptics Incorporated (2014–2016) and Director of Marketing at Atmel Corporation (2007–2014).
Ken Chiang
LinkedInExperience: Director, Test Operations · AMD
Ken Chiang has been Director, Test Operations at AMD since August 2019, and the listing places them in Taiwan. They were Director, Foundry Operation, Taiwan Region at NXP Semiconductors (2015–2019) and Regional Manager, External Manufacturing at Freescale Semiconductor (2011–2015), and their About section describes a focus on operation excellence, manufacturing quality and engineering analytics.
Paul Yioutas
LinkedInExperience: Director, Business Operations, Technology & Product Engineering and Global Operations · AMD
Paul Yioutas has been Director, Business Operations, Technology & Product Engineering and Global Operations at AMD since June 2006, and the listing places them in Austin, Texas. They were Sr. Manager, Business Operations at CSC (2003–2006) and a Sr. Manager at Motorola Mobility (1996–2003).
R. Lee
LinkedInExperience: Test Operations Director · AMD
R. Lee has been Test Operations Director at AMD since January 2014, and the listing places them in Malaysia. They were Senior Test Manager at MFLEX (2004–2013), Subcontractor Site Resident Manager at onsemi (1999–2004) and a Product & Test Engineer at AMD (1990–1994), and their About section cites semiconductor assembly and test engineering in the Asia Pacific region.
Soopin Chow
LinkedInExperience: Director of External Manufacturing Operations · AMD
Soopin Chow has been Director of External Manufacturing Operations at AMD since July 2024, and the listing also shows a Senior Manager External Manufacturing Operations role there from May 2017. They were Senior Manager, Assembly NPI/Quality at UTAC (2005–2017) and a Failure Analysis Engineer at Infineon Technologies (2002–2005), and the listing places them in Singapore.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area, such as external manufacturing, test operations, foundry technology, board operations, new product introduction or business operations for a product group, to the question you bring. Consider where each person is based, since people on this list work in Asia, Texas and California and may describe different parts of the work.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you manage manufacturing and test partners outside the company?
- 02What do you track to know a new product is ready to ramp?
- 03How have you worked with other operations groups to get a product launched?
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