{"id":12770,"date":"2014-10-28T01:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/?p=12770"},"modified":"2014-10-28T01:43:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:43:31","slug":"forrest-norrod-joins-amd-as-senior-vice-president-and-general-manager-of-enterprise-embedded-and-semi-custom-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/12770-forrest-norrod-joins-amd-as-senior-vice-president-and-general-manager-of-enterprise-embedded-and-semi-custom-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Norrod Joins AMD<\/span> as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUNNYVALE<\/span>, CA<\/span> \u2014 (Mar\u00adket\u00adwired) \u2014 10\/27\/14 \u2013<\/strong> AMD<\/span><\/a> (NYSE<\/span>: AMD<\/span>) today announ\u00adced that For\u00adrest Nor\u00adrod<\/a> (49) has joi\u00adn\u00aded the com\u00adpa\u00adny as seni\u00ador vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent and gene\u00adral mana\u00adger of AMD<\/span>\u2019s Enter\u00adpri\u00adse, Embedded and Semi-Cus\u00adtom (EESC<\/span>) busi\u00adness group, report\u00ading to Pre\u00adsi\u00addent and CEO<\/span> Dr. Lisa Su<\/a>. Nor\u00adrod will be respon\u00adsi\u00adble for mana\u00adging all aspects of stra\u00adtegy, busi\u00adness manage\u00adment, engi\u00adnee\u00adring, and sales for AMD<\/span>\u2019s EESC<\/span> busi\u00adness. He replaces Dr. Su, who has held the posi\u00adti\u00adon on an inte\u00adrim basis sin\u00adce July.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>For\u00adrest is an indus\u00adtry vete\u00adran who\u00adse strong track record of estab\u00adli\u00adshing and gro\u00adwing busi\u00adnesses streng\u00adthens our lea\u00adder\u00adship team,\u201d said Dr. Su. \u201cForrest\u2019s uni\u00adque com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adti\u00adon of engi\u00adnee\u00adring, busi\u00adness manage\u00adment and tech\u00adni\u00adcal exper\u00adti\u00adse at both the chip and sys\u00adtem level make him ide\u00adal\u00adly sui\u00adted to lead AMD<\/span> into an expan\u00added set of mar\u00adkets whe\u00adre our dif\u00adfe\u00adren\u00adtia\u00adted tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy assets pro\u00advi\u00adde a com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adti\u00adve advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor\u00adrod most recent\u00adly was vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent and gene\u00adral mana\u00adger of Dell\u2019s ser\u00adver busi\u00adness, dri\u00adving the busi\u00adness to mar\u00adket share lea\u00adder\u00adship in seve\u00adral key geo\u00adgra\u00adphies and mar\u00adkets. Pri\u00ador to that role, he led the crea\u00adti\u00adon of Dell\u2019s first inter\u00adnal start\u00adup focu\u00adsed on the hyper-sca\u00adle dat\u00ada\u00adcen\u00adter mar\u00adket as the vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent and gene\u00adral mana\u00adger, Data Cen\u00adter Solu\u00adti\u00adons (DCS<\/span>). Nor\u00adrod held seve\u00adral engi\u00adnee\u00adring lea\u00adder\u00adship roles pre\u00advious\u00adly at Dell, start\u00ading as CTO<\/span> of Cli\u00adent Pro\u00adducts befo\u00adre lea\u00adding Enter\u00adpri\u00adse Engi\u00adnee\u00adring and ulti\u00adm\u00adate\u00adly having respon\u00adsi\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty for all of Dell\u2019s glo\u00adbal engi\u00adnee\u00adring teams. Pri\u00ador to Dell, he ran the inte\u00adgra\u00adted x86 CPU<\/span> busi\u00adness at Cyrix and Natio\u00adnal Semiconductor.<\/p>\n

Nor\u00adrod has a Bache\u00adlor of Sci\u00adence and a Mas\u00adter of Sci\u00adence in elec\u00adtri\u00adcal engi\u00adnee\u00adring from Vir\u00adgi\u00adnia Tech. He holds 11 US<\/span> patents in com\u00adpu\u00adter archi\u00adtec\u00adtu\u00adre, gra\u00adphics and sys\u00adtem design. He is based in Aus\u00adtin, Texas.<\/p>\n

About AMD<\/span>
\n<\/em>AMD<\/span> (NYSE<\/span>: AMD<\/span>) designs and inte\u00adgra\u00adtes tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy that powers mil\u00adli\u00adons of intel\u00adli\u00adgent devices, inclu\u00adding per\u00adso\u00adnal com\u00adpu\u00adters, tablets, game con\u00adso\u00adles and cloud ser\u00advers that defi\u00adne the new era of sur\u00adround com\u00adpu\u00adting. AMD<\/span> solu\u00adti\u00adons enable peo\u00adp\u00adle ever\u00ady\u00adwhe\u00adre to rea\u00adli\u00adze the full poten\u00adti\u00adal of their favo\u00adri\u00adte devices and appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons to push the boun\u00adda\u00adries of what is pos\u00adsi\u00adble. For more infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon, visit www.amd.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

AMD<\/span>, the AMD<\/span> Arrow logo, and com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adti\u00adons the\u00adreof, are trade\u00admarks of Advan\u00adced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for infor\u00adma\u00adtio\u00adnal pur\u00adpo\u00adses only and used to iden\u00adti\u00adfy com\u00adpa\u00adnies and pro\u00adducts and may be trade\u00admarks of their respec\u00adti\u00adve owner.<\/em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SUNNYVALE<\/span>, CA<\/span> \u2014 (Mar\u00adket\u00adwired) \u2014 10\/27\/14 \u2014 AMD<\/span> (NYSE<\/span>: AMD<\/span>) today announ\u00adced that For\u00adrest Nor\u00adrod (49) has joi\u00adn\u00aded the com\u00adpa\u00adny as seni\u00ador vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent and gene\u00adral mana\u00adger of AMD<\/span>\u2019s Enter\u00adpri\u00adse, Embedded and Semi-Cus\u00adtom (EESC<\/span>) busi\u00adness group, report\u00ading to Pre\u00adsi\u00addent and CEO<\/span> Dr. Lisa Su. Nor\u00adrod will be respon\u00adsi\u00adble for mana\u00adging all aspects of stra\u00adtegy, busi\u00adness manage\u00adment, engi\u00adnee\u00adring, and sales for AMD<\/span>\u2019s EESC<\/span> busi\u00adness. He replaces Dr. Su, who has held the posi\u00adti\u00adon on an inte\u00adrim basis sin\u00adce July. (\u2026) Wei\u00adter\u00adle\u00adsen \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen","entry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12771,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions\/12771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}