Mr. Mark Papermaster

Mark Papermaster is chief technology officer and executive vice president responsible for driving the company’s end-to-end technology vision, strategy and product roadmap. He led the redesign of engineering processes at AMD and the development of the award-winning “Zen” highperformance x86 CPU family, high-performance GPUs and the company’s modular design approach, Infinity Architecture. His more than 40 years of engineering experience includes significant leadership roles managing the development of a wide range of products, from microprocessors to mobile devices and highperformance servers. Before joining AMD in October 2011 as chief technology officer and senior vice president, Papermaster was the leader of Cisco’s Silicon Engineering Group, Apple senior vice president of devices hardware engineering for iPod and iPhone, and held multiple IBM roles in technology development including blade server and the microprocessor technology in mainframe, server and storage products. In February 2025, Papermaster was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for leadership in the design and production of complex integrated circuit processors. Papermaster is an active member of several boards and committees. In February 2026, he was appointed to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Advisory Committee. He also serves on the Global Semiconductor Alliance board of directors; the IEEE Industry Advisory Board; the University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering Advisory Board; the University of Texas President’s Austin Innovation Board; and the Purdue University Semiconductor Degrees Leadership Board.