Raghu Nambiar
Corporate Vice President at AMD
Upturn Corporation•Houston, Texas, United States
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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
- AMDCurrent2018–Present· 8 yrs 9 mos
- Corporate Vice President, Engineering - Compute, Enterprise & Sovereign AI, and HPCCurrent2025–Present
- Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Datacenter Software & Solution Engineering2018–Present
- Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer2018–Present
- Upturn CorporationCurrent2017–Present· 9 yrs 9 mos
- AdvisorCurrent2017–Present
- KETOSCurrent2016–Present· 10 yrs 9 mos
- AdvisorCurrent2016–Present
- 2016–2018· 2 yrs
- Advisory Board Member2016–2018
- Advisory Board Member2016–2018
- 2010–2018· 8 yrs
- Advisor2015–2017
- Distinguished Engineer, Senior Director, Data Center Business2010–2015
- Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)2010–2018
- 2010–2017· 7 yrs
- Chairman, AI Benchmark Standards Committee2016–2017
- Chairman, IoT Benchmark Standards Committee2015–2017
- Chairman, Big Data Benchmark Standards Committee2013–2015
- Co Founder, Board of Directors2012–2014
- Board of Directors2010–2017
- 1997–2010· 13 yrs
- Architect, Industry Standard Server Group1997–2010
Education
Master's degree
Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts LowellAdvanced Leadership and Management Program
Stanford UniversityMaster's degree
Computer Science
Goa University