Cisco Appoints AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa T. Su to Board of Directors

[dirtyferret]

Seriously, I though explaining what supervisory board is wasn't necessary... But maybe you should read @Easy Rhino 's post.

Looks like you failed to understand my post , his post was a redundancy of mine...as what was yours, let's hope you don't talk this way to women

 

[notb]

Looks like you failed to understand my post , his post was a redundancy of mine...as what was yours, let's hope you don't talk this way to women

Actually your post looked like if you've just learned what a board is. That's why reacted as I did.
For example:

It's a club that looks after their own so when it comes time to increase CEO pay who better to vote on it then a bunch of CEOs...

Board of directors members aren't chosen by the company (executives). They're chosen by the owners.

The anomaly observed here is not about a CEO being chosen to the board of directors, since it happens (albeit - as I said earlier - they're usually retired).
It's about Su being a CEO of another company from the industry - a potential chip supplier for Cisco.

Just imagine a situation where Intel CEO join supervisory board of a major PC OEM.

 

[Super XP]

She's a smart turn around expert and an intelligent engineer.
Nobody is going to force Cisco to buy EPIC CPUs for its servers, but I'm sure the option has been on the table already even before Dr. Lisa Su was appointed to its BOD.
Going with EPIC is the obvious choice seeing how problematic and security vulnerable Intels been for years now.

 

[texas64]

Being on a board of directors will take a few days of her year, likely during leave of absence.
She's an engineer and a top manager. She surely has ambitions larger than being worshiped by gamers.

Anyway, this shouldn't have any impact on her work at AMD. Of course assuming no "next steps" are going to happen.

There are typically 4 quarterly all-hands board meetings (at most companies) which means 4 days away; plus other conference calls, research, travel if away during the board meeting, etc.

Background: I've worked at startups where I had to present to the board....

 

[Kaotik]

Just imagine a situation where Intel CEO join supervisory board of a major PC OEM.

Sorry for really late reply, I forgot I was part of this thread. But Paul Otellini was part of Googles Board of Directors at the same time as he was CEO at Intel.