• Former Intel Engineer, McKinsey Partner Rajan Naik Joins AMD

    Monday, January 9th, 2012

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

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    Chip maker AMD this morning announced that it has recruited Rajan Naik to become part of its management team.

    Formerly a senior engineer at the company’s main rival, Intel, Naik was most recently a partner in McKinsey & Company‘s Technology practice, where he worked for the past 11 years.

    Naik, 40, will become senior vice president and chief strategy officer of AMD, where he will be responsible for helping out with strategy development, partnerships, M&A and investment decisions. He’ll report directly to AMD president and CEO Rory Read.

    Naik has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in engineering from MIT.

    His hiring follows that of AMD’s appointment of Mark Papermaster as senior vice president and CTO.


    Company: AMD
    Website: amd.com
    Launch Date: 1969

    AMD is an American semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies for both commercial and consumer markets. They produce primarily microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors, and graphics processors. The company began operations by improving upon chip designs of models that they licensed from other companies. They are now the second largest producer of x86 chips in the market.

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