10 AMD security leaders

Experience: Director, Security Incident Response & Governance · AMD

Director, Security Incident Response & Governance at AMD since November 2020, with a headline naming product security incident response leadership and vulnerability management. Beverly Alvarez was Principal Project Manager, Lenovo PSIRT (2014–2020) and Senior Program Manager, Accessibility Compliance (2012–2014) and Software Operations Senior Project Manager (2011–2012) at Lenovo.

Experience: Director, Product & Platform Security · AMD

Director, Product & Platform Security at AMD since January 2021, based in San Diego County, California, with the role listed in the product department at Director level. Harold Gilkey was Director Of Engineering at Qualcomm (1997–2021), and the profile lists skills including platform management and platform security.

Experience: Senior Director, Product Security - Architecture & Engineering · AMD

Senior Director, Product Security - Architecture & Engineering at AMD since April 2020, based in Folsom, California. Hemaprabhu Jayanna was System Software Architect (2017–2020), Platform Security Architect (2012–2013) and Security Architect (2010–2012) at Intel, and Design Engineering Lead at Micron Technology (2013–2017).

Experience: Corporate Vice President, Head of Product Security - AMD · AMD

Corporate Vice President, Head of Product Security - AMD since July 2023, based in San Diego, and Head of Product Security at AMD from 2021 to 2023. Hugo Romero was Sr. Dir. of Technology for SOC Security Architecture at Qualcomm (2017–2021) and Sr Dir of Engineering - Qualcomm Cyber Security Solutions (2009–2016).

Experience: Director Information Security · AMD

Director Information Security at AMD since June 2021, described in the profile as Director of Information Security Enterprise Strategy and Architecture and Chief Business Information Security Officer (BISO) at AMD. Kevin Dennis was Senior Manager Information Security at AMD (2016–2021) and Senior Security Architect at Secureworks (2015–2016).

Experience: Former Sr. Director, Platform Security · AMD

Former Sr. Director, Platform Security at AMD (April 2018 to September 2025), based in Toronto, and now President of Kris Socha Consulting. Kris Socha was Vice-President, Technical Development and Support at the Secure Content Storage Association (2015–2017) and Vice President, Customer Engineering Support and Program Management at ViXS Systems Inc. (2013–2014).

Experience: Former Director of Security · AMD

Former Director of Security at AMD (2011–2021), also listed as Trusted Computing & Security Manager at AMD (2011–2015), with over 18 years in information security and trusted computing, per the profile. Lindsay Shang was Senior Security Engineer (2007–2009) and Cryptography Engineer (2004–2007) at MIPS.

Experience: Former Sr Director IT Security and Compliance · AMD

Former Sr Director IT Security and Compliance at AMD, a role the profile lists from 1996 to 2024, based in San Jose. Mark Hodges describes more than 25 years in IT, IT security management and compliance management, including implementing security programs for automation, defense in depth and comprehensive monitoring.

Experience: Director, Information Security - Security Engineering and Platform Operations · AMD

Director, Information Security - Security Engineering and Platform Operations at AMD since June 2025, based in Ireland. Seán Compton was Sr. Manager, Information Security - Security Engineering and Platform Operations (2024–2025) and Sr. Manager, Information Security - Security Engineering (2022–2024) at AMD, and Sr. Manager, Global Security Operations (2017–2022) and Manager, Global Security Operations (2011–2017) at Xilinx.

Experience: Director, Platform Security · AMD

Director, Platform Security at AMD since September 2025, based in Markham, Ontario. Ting-Yu Lin was Director, Cloud & Virtualization SW (2022–2025), Senior Software Manager, Cloud & Virtualization Software (2019–2022) and Software Manager, GPU Virtualization (2017–2019) at AMD, and an experienced Windows kernel driver developer, per the profile.