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2021 NOTICE OF MEETING AND PROXY
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INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
The following sets forth biographical information regarding our executive officers as of March 23, 2021. Biographical information about Dr. Su,
who is both a director and an executive officer, may be found above under Information About AMDs Board of Directors. The age of each executive officer is as of our Annual Meeting.
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Devinder Kumar
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Age: 65
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Mr. Kumar is our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.
Mr. Kumar is responsible for the companys global finance organization and oversees financial management of the company as well as global corporate services and facilities.
Since joining AMD in 1984, Mr. Kumar has progressed through leadership positions in corporate accounting and corporate finance, including serving 10
years as the regional finance director in Asia. From 2001 to 2012, Mr. Kumar served as Corporate Controller. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer in January 2013 and his role was expanded to include Treasurer in April 2015.
Mr. Kumar has served as a member of the board of directors of Ciena Corporation (a networking systems, services and software company) since August
2019.
Mr. Kumar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Ecology from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, a Master of Science degree in Biology
from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Rick Bergman
Executive Vice President, Computing and Graphics Business Group
Age: 57
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Mr. Bergman is our Executive Vice President of Computing and Graphics. Mr. Bergman is
responsible for the companys graphics and semi-custom businesses as well as combining AMDs high-performance CPUs, GPUs and software to create differentiated solutions. Mr. Bergman brings over 30 years of industry experience
including significant business leadership experience.
Previously, Mr. Bergman was president and CEO for Synaptics, a leading developer of human
interface solutions including touch, display, IoT and biometrics solutions, from October 2011 to March 2019. Prior to that, he served in a series of senior executive positions at AMD, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of
AMDs Product Group from May 2009 to September 2011, and Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMDs Graphics Product Group from October 2006 to May 2009. During his time at AMD, Mr. Bergman was responsible for delivering
microprocessors and graphics chips to our customers across server, client, embedded and game consoles, and for driving the technology that put a graphics chip and processor on a single piece of silicon. Until AMD acquired ATI Technologies Inc. in
2006, Mr. Bergman was Senior Vice President and General Manager of ATI Technologies PC Group.
Additionally, he has held senior management
positions at S3 Graphics, Texas Instruments and IBM and was a board member of Maxwell Technologies from 2015 until it was acquired by Tesla in May 2019.
Mr. Bergman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science degree in
Business Administration from the University of Colorados Executive MBA program.
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Darren Grasby
Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, President EMEA
Age: 51
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Mr. Grasby is our Executive Vice President, Chief Sales Officer and President of AMD EMEA. In
this role, he is responsible for leading the global sales organization for our product lines, including computing, graphics, datacenter and embedded products. Since Mr. Grasby joined AMD in 2007, he has held several leadership roles focused on
sales and marketing, including serving as Senior Vice President of Global Computing and Graphics Sales from July 2018 to January 2019. In that role, Mr. Grasby led teams responsible for successfully driving adoption of AMD Ryzen, AMD
Radeon and AMD EPYC processors globally. Prior to that, Mr. Grasby was our President EMEA and Global Channel
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