Friday, October 24, 2008

AMD announces executive promotions

AMD announced on Thursday (23 October) that it has appointed Bob Rivet as chief operations and administrative officer and Emilio Ghilardi as chief sales officer at the beginning of 2009.

Rivet was previously the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer, whilst Ghilardi was senior vice president and general manager of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Ghilardi will take up his new role at the beginning of 2009.

Prior to joining the company Rivet served as senior vice president and director of finance of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola.

Ghilardi joined AMD earlier this year from HP, where he most recently served as the vice president and general manager of HP's EMEA Consumer Business Unit.

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