Raghu Nambiar

Raghu Nambiar

Corporate Vice President at AMD

Upturn Corporation•Houston, Texas, United States

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Experience29+ Years
LevelStaff

Executive Overview

Raghu Nambiar is a Corporate Vice President at AMD where he leads a global engineering team responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and execution for AMD’s datacenter business. Prior to joining AMD, as the CTO of the Cisco UCS business he played an instrumental role in accelerating the growth of Cisco UCS to a top datacenter-compute platform. At Hewlett-Packard, where Raghu spent his early years as a technology leader, he was responsible for several industry-first and disruptive technology solutions and a decade of performance benchmark leadership. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, 15 books in Lecture Series in Computer Science (LNCS) and holds ten patents with several pending. He holds dual Master’s degrees from University of Massachusetts and Goa University, and an advanced management program from Stanford University.

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • AMDCurrent
    2018–Present· 8 yrs 9 mos
    • Corporate Vice President, Engineering - Compute, Enterprise & Sovereign AI, and HPCCurrent
      2025–Present
    • Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Datacenter Software & Solution Engineering
      2018–Present
    • Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
      2018–Present
  • 2017–Present· 9 yrs 9 mos
    • AdvisorCurrent
      2017–Present
  • KETOSCurrent
    2016–Present· 10 yrs 9 mos
    • AdvisorCurrent
      2016–Present
  • 2016–2018· 2 yrs
    • Advisory Board Member
      2016–2018
    • Advisory Board Member
      2016–2018
  • 2010–2018· 8 yrs
    • Advisor
      2015–2017
    • Distinguished Engineer, Senior Director, Data Center Business
      2010–2015
    • Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
      2010–2018
  • 2010–2017· 7 yrs
    • Chairman, AI Benchmark Standards Committee
      2016–2017
    • Chairman, IoT Benchmark Standards Committee
      2015–2017
    • Chairman, Big Data Benchmark Standards Committee
      2013–2015
    • Co Founder, Board of Directors
      2012–2014
    • Board of Directors
      2010–2017
  • 1997–2010· 13 yrs
    • Architect, Industry Standard Server Group
      1997–2010

Education

Master's degree

Computer Engineering

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Advanced Leadership and Management Program

Stanford University

Master's degree

Computer Science

Goa University

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Cisco TechnologiesArchitectureVirtualizationProduct ManagementHigh Performance ComputingData WarehousingGo-to-market StrategyCloud ComputingSolution ArchitectureStorageShell ScriptingCross-functional Team LeadershipTechnical LeadershipEnterprise SoftwareDatabasesScalabilityIntegrationData CenterSystem ArchitectureVMware