Nigel Dessau is senior vice president and chief marketing officer of AMD. He is responsible for the company’s global marketing, brand and communications campaigns and strategies, including leading a team responsible for AMD’s social media engagement.
Dessau joined AMD in March 2008, bringing more than 22 years of technology sales and marketing leadership experience.
Prior to joining AMD, Dessau was senior vice president of Storage Marketing and senior vice president of Alliances and Licensing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was chief marketing officer of StorageTek and before that spent 19 years at IBM, most recently as Business Unit Executive for IBM Virtualization Solutions. While at IBM, Dessau managed the worldwide launch of IBM eServer zSeries, and headed up marketing programs for the S/390 brand. As part of the Corporate Marketing Team, he led the marketing strategy behind e-business and the transition to On Demand Business.
Born and educated in Nottingham, England, Dessau resides with his wife in Austin, Texas.
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