Tuesday, January 28th 2020
Cisco Appoints AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa T. Su to Board of Directors
Cisco today announced the appointment of Dr. Lisa T. Su, AMD president and CEO, to its board of directors effective today. "Lisa is an accomplished business leader with deep expertise in the semiconductor industry," said Chuck Robbins, chairman and CEO, Cisco. "We look forward to her contributions to Cisco's board and our business as we continue to develop ground breaking technologies, and a new internet for the 5G era that will help our customers innovate faster than ever before."
Dr. Su, 50, joined AMD in 2012 and has held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer since October 2014. She also serves on AMD's Board of Directors. Previously, Dr. Su served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., and was responsible for global strategy, marketing and engineering for the company's embedded communications and applications processor business. Dr. Su joined Freescale in 2007 as Chief Technology Officer, where she led the company's technology roadmap and research and development efforts.
Dr. Su spent the previous 13 years at IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, including Vice President of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center responsible for the strategic direction of IBM's silicon technologies, joint development alliances and semiconductor R&D operations. Prior to IBM, she was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments Incorporated from 1994 to 1995. Dr. Su has a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
For more information about Cisco's board of directors visit here.
Dr. Su, 50, joined AMD in 2012 and has held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer since October 2014. She also serves on AMD's Board of Directors. Previously, Dr. Su served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., and was responsible for global strategy, marketing and engineering for the company's embedded communications and applications processor business. Dr. Su joined Freescale in 2007 as Chief Technology Officer, where she led the company's technology roadmap and research and development efforts.
For more information about Cisco's board of directors visit here.
29 Comments on Cisco Appoints AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa T. Su to Board of Directors
For example: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. :)
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.
Background: I've worked at startups where I had to present to the board....