Monday, January 9th 2012
AMD Appoints Rajan Naik as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Rajan Naik, 40, has joined the company as senior vice president and chief strategy officer. He will report to president and chief executive officer Rory Read. Naik, who was most recently a Partner in McKinsey & Company's Technology practice will be responsible for AMD's short-and long-term strategy development, including market opportunities, strategic partnerships and investment strategies.
"Rajan Naik possesses a strong track record of execution in strategic planning, product and market strategy, and operational performance," Read said. "He will help ensure strategic and operational alignment across our business to take advantage of growth opportunities in lower power, emerging markets and cloud computing."
Mr. Naik spent 11 years at McKinsey & Company, where he provided counsel to various companies in the technology and telecom industries. Prior to his tenure at McKinsey, Mr. Naik worked as a senior engineer at Intel Corporation. Prior to Intel, he was a member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies.
Mr. Naik joins AMD following the appointment of Dr. Lisa Su as senior vice president and general manager, global business units, as well as the appointment of Mark Papermaster as senior vice president and chief technology officer.
Mr. Naik has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will be primarily based in Austin, Texas.
"Rajan Naik possesses a strong track record of execution in strategic planning, product and market strategy, and operational performance," Read said. "He will help ensure strategic and operational alignment across our business to take advantage of growth opportunities in lower power, emerging markets and cloud computing."
Mr. Naik joins AMD following the appointment of Dr. Lisa Su as senior vice president and general manager, global business units, as well as the appointment of Mark Papermaster as senior vice president and chief technology officer.
Mr. Naik has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will be primarily based in Austin, Texas.
67 Comments on AMD Appoints Rajan Naik as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Now I'd like to comment on the issue involving a lack of AMD advertisements. I'm not sure AMD wants to get involved in an ad-war with Intel at their current state. Intel's war vault is far too well equipped and prepared for an all-out rumble with AMD, so it would be wiser for AMD to stick with free forms of advertising like word of mouth and posts on internet tech sites.
AMD should focus on developing sound products that are marketable as a viable alternative to Intel's offerings before wasting R&D dollars on ads.
Now say this like “Foghorn Leghorn”…that’s a Joke son you missed it!
This looks like AMD is targeting the server and mobile markets. A solid mobile market will only assist the desktop.
In truth in Britain we've actually removed the "sub" part of the terminology. Yes we accept Indian-American as a legit term, but in the media we just use "American" only regardless of descent. For example we don't call Barack Obama African American on our media, he is just American.
Even British people of Indian decent, born in the UK are referred to as British. Full stop. Nothing more nothing less.
As for Scottish, Welsh, Brit, Irish, etc argument, generally speaking the English, Scottish and Welsh don't mind being called British because it's in Britain. It's only Irish people have a problem because it's outside of Britain.
Either you add something useful to the post or read the post and move on!!
However, saying something like "Americans getting jobs they don't deserve" is somewhat questionable. Because there are talented people in America AND in the UK AND in rest of the world.
Look, I'm not from the U.S. myself, I'm from Uruguay. I just believe that if Rajan Naik, wherever he is from, do a good job for AMD then welcome aboard. Because intel does it the same way.
I don't live in the US and not planning moving there as I'm pretty ok in my country, but I know how it feels when a trend takes jobs away. In our case everything moves to Brazil or Argentina. But as everything, as a trend begins a trend comes to an end sometime.
And to conclude my thoughts I think that as texas based AMD is still a multinational company, and I personally see no reason to be mad at them for hiring a non-U.S. guy aboard. After all, the whole world buys products from U.S. based companies. But if for some reason its more redituable to do things outside the U.S., companies are not incentivated (if that word exists) to stay in the U.S, and that's something the govs have to look at.
But in this case, it has nothing to do with world's economy, we are talking about AMD hiring Rajan Naik, right? what if he is just another U.S. guy living in the U.S. ? he studied in the U.S., he lived in the U.S. maybe he didn't born in the U.S., but if he is a citizen, its making more good to the U.S. than people thinks.
Some people thinks "This guy didn't born in the U.S, but he studied in the U.S. and now he's taking away our jobs".... which is in my opinion a wrong logical thought. If the guy lives in the U.S. under U.S. laws, (and assuming he pays his taxes), then I can assure you he's doing good to the nation and he's contributing to its prosperity. If you think otherwise, then you may think that having more people in the U.S. is bad, because they take jobs away.
What if a U.S. couple has 5 children instead of 2, is that going to harm the U.S economy by taking jobs away? No of course not. Population growth is an important thing to a nation, and the cold number doesn't care whenever those children were born in the U.S. or not. And one of those children could be Rajan Naik himself.
Just my 2 cents.
yourhis government.Getting grey or white hair is part of getting older but as for getting bald that is purely genetics ;)Sorry! to hear that & i hope that was long time ago & that you're alright now?
As for Rajan Naik who really care where the guy comes from?
If you higher someone to do a job & the guy can do a good job what is it matter what nationality he comes from? None!
@Trickson, well to start with AMD is not an American company, its a European one. Secondly, I think its the prerogative of the company to hire a person and not yours. And thirdly, get out from under the damn rock you have been living in. You sound like some dude from back in the 50's/60's with your hating of people who are of a different color/race than you. America was built by foreigners (British, European, African, Asians etc etc etc) to start with. So please read up on your history before going on about race and how its that one qualification that will turn a company around.
American/Indian/Chinese/European/African etc etc make no difference as long as they get the job done. And I hope you read the rest of the post as well, which says he studied in America, passed out from a couple of really good schools, has proved himself to be a good guy at work and so on and so forth. SO, he is basically getting the job on the merit of his work and his education, NOT because he is of a particular color/creed/race/religion.
I am sorry about this rant, but your comments are really a bit out of line for the internet and specially for a forum that caters to people worldwide.
So they are not "REAL" Americans either, right?
Anglo Saxon or white or caucasians or whatever you want to call them are NOT the real Americans if we want to be technical. The Native Americans are, they were killed and murdered and had their homeland taken away.Those foreign people learned English as a second language to a high standard and hence scooped up some of the high paid western jobs when opportunity came.
Maybe if us western people were not so lazy we would learn a second language a get high paid jobs in their country too.