Lisa Su

Lisa Su is a Taiwanese and American business executive, computer scientist and electrical engineer, born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1969 and raised in New York City after her family emigrated when she was three. She earned three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked at Texas Instruments, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, where she became known for work on silicon-on-insulator manufacturing technology and more efficient semiconductor chips. She joined AMD in 2012 and has served as its president and chief executive officer since October 2014. During her tenure as chief executive the market capitalization of AMD has grown from roughly 3 billion dollars to more than 1 trillion dollars.