Nationality American Role Executive Name Rory Read | Spouse(s) Mary Savoy-Read Alma mater Hartwick College Education Hartwick College | |
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Occupation COO and President of Worldwide Commercial Sales for Dell Similar Lisa T Su, Dirk Meyer, Jerry Sanders, Edwin Turney, Jack Gifford | ||
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Rory Read is currently Chief Integration Officer at Dell, with responsibility for planning the integration of Dell and EMC. From August 2011 to October 2014 he served as president and chief executive officer of AMD and member of the company’s board of directors.
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Lenovo accelerate 2011 rory read lenovo president and coo
Education
Read graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Information Systems from Hartwick College.
Career
Rory Read is a former executive advisor for AMD. He is also the former CEO and President of AMD, where he followed Dirk Meyer. Appointed president and CEO in August, 2011, Read served on the company’s board of directors. Rory was followed by Lisa Su.
At AMD, Read inherited a company that had approximately 95% of its revenue driven by the PC market. Read diversified the portfolio to produce revenue of 50% from five new high growth markets, building over US$2 billion in new businesses. Under Read, AMD lowered costs by over 30% while restructuring AMD debt, strengthening the balance sheet, and returning to non-GAAP profitability. He was responsible for implementing an ambidextrous X86/ARM architecture and the clean sweep of AMD GPUs or APUs in new game consoles during his tenure.
Prior to joining AMD, Read served as president and chief operating officer of Lenovo Group, Ltd. During Read's five-year tenure at Lenovo he was responsible for driving growth, execution, profitability and performance across a global $16 billion enterprise encompassing over 160 countries. At the time of Read’s departure, Lenovo had just marked the 7th straight quarter as the fastest growing PC maker in the world and had become the world’s third largest global PC manufacturer.
He previously spent 23 years at IBM serving in various global leadership roles. He worked in IBM's Asia Pacific region as general manager, Business Innovation Services for Asia Pacific. As Managing Partner for IBM’s Business Consulting Services Industrial Sector, Read led the division through a turnaround that significantly improved gross margins, drove new customer acquisitions and generated double digit revenue growth and operating profitability. He was vice president of IBM eBusiness Transformation that produced more than $1 billion in company-wide savings and $21 billion in sales.
Read was recently appointed Chief Integration Officer at Dell, with responsibility for planning the integration of Dell and EMC. He leads a cross-functional team which manages the planning of the proposed acquisition. Previously he was Chief Operating Officer and President of Worldwide Commercial Sales for Dell. He is responsible for Dell’s global go-to-market initiatives, omni-channel sales planning and enablement.
Personal life
Rory lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Mary Savoy-Read.