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Ms. James founded Ampere Computing in 2017, where she is currently the Chairman and CEO. Ampere produces high performance microprocessors for cloud and edge computing. Ms. James had a lengthy career at Intel where she served as President of Intel until her departure in 2016. During her tenure with Intel, she was the first female General Manager of a business unit as well as the first woman Executive Vice President that led R&D and global manufacturing operations. Ms. James was also chief of staff to Intel founder, Andy Grove midway through her career for over 4 years.

James has vast, global operating experience in both hardware and software development and manufacturing of semiconductors.  She has led several development sites around the globe as well as directed the government affairs in those regions. She is an active voice for diversity and representation in technology as well as the future of the U.S. Semiconductor industry.

James was on the Fast Company list of “100 Most Creative People in Business,” ranked 21st on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business, and, has been recognized on the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women List.

James is a member of the board of directors of Citi Corp and Oracle. James has been a member of the National Security Advisory Committee to the President by presidential appointment since 2011 and is the most recent Chairman emeritus.



Renée J. James

Founder/Chairman & CEO

Todd has held numerous finance leadership positions over his 28-year career. Prior to Ampere, he served as corporate vice president and chief financial officer for the Client Computing Group at Intel.  Prior to that he served as vice president and interim chief financial officer of Intel with responsibility for leading the company’s global finance organization including accounting and reporting, internal audit, investor relations, operations finance, treasury, and tax.  He also held leadership positions at Intel serving as vice president of finance for Corporate Planning and Reporting, vice president of finance for Mobile & Communications Group, director of finance for Intel Capital M&A and Equity Investments and controller for the Enterprise Server Group.

Todd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Oregon and an MBA from University of Portland.

Todd Underwood

Chief Financial Officer

Atiq is a seasoned technologist with over 30 years of technical leadership experience in product R&D. Prior to joining Ampere, Atiq was VP and GM of product architecture at Intel, where he led the architectural definition and development of Intel’s computing products for the data center, PC, workstation, and ultramobile markets. Over the course of an extensive career at Intel, he contributed in a number of technical and leadership roles in architecture, design and software development; served as GM of Intel’s cable networking operation; and led the acquisition and integration of a large public company. Before joining Intel, Atiq was a member of the team that developed the 32000 family of microprocessors at National Semiconductor.

Atiq received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University. He holds 6 US patents in computer architecture and was awarded an Intel Achievement Award for pioneering work on the Pentium Pro processor.

Atiq Bajwa

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect

Rohit brings over 25 years of experience from Intel where he developed microprocessors, graphics, media and supercomputing processors and platforms, and holds 8 microprocessor design patents. Notable projects that he worked on or led include Intels first 8 and 10 core XeonTM  microprocessors for data center and enterprise servers and IntelsTM  first multi-core phone and tablet SOCs based on the ATOMTM  core. He led silicon and platform development teams across the world, bringing products successfully to market. He was appointed a vice president in 2013. 

Rohit has a MSCE from the University of Texas at Austin and a BSCE from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
                

Rohit Vidwans

Chief Engineering & Manufacturing Officer

Ben is the general counsel at Ampere. He joined Ampere from Tonkon Torp LLP where he was a partner focusing on mergers and acquisitions, general business, corporate and securities law matters, and commercial finance transactions. Prior to joining Tonkon Torp, he spent 20 years as an attorney with Lane Powell PC.

Since 2008, Ben has been recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for his skill in corporate matters relating to securities, M&A and commercial finance.

Ben Lenhart

General Counsel

Jeff Wittich is the chief product officer at Ampere. Jeff has extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor industry in roles ranging from product and process development to business strategy to marketing. Prior to joining Ampere, he worked at Intel for 15 years in a variety of positions throughout the company. Most recently, he was responsible for the Cloud Service Provider Platform business, driving global market reach, product customization, and ultimately defining the products and platforms being used across the cloud worldwide. While at Intel, Jeff also led a product development team responsible for 5 generations of Xeon processors. He received an Intel Achievement Award for his work in developing the Custom CPU program.

Jeff has an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Jeff Wittich

Chief Product Officer

Bob is the VP of sales at Ampere, responsible for all sales/revenue-generating activities at Ampere.  He brings 30 years of experience in the technology industry, holding several sales leadership roles at Intel.  Before retiring from Intel, Bob ran Intel’s Global Inside Sales organization,  a team of over 250 sales professionals.  Prior to the HQ role, Bob was based in Houston, TX, running Intel’s largest Data Center Group (DCG’s) customer - HPE - leading the server, storage, networking, go to market, and co-selling business for eight years.  Bob also worked in Intel Capital as a senior fund/deal manager (invested in four early start-up companies) and was an integration manager (acquired a company/integrated them into Intel).  Bob spent the majority of his 20-year career within Intel’s Sales Organization, holding roles such as field sales engineer, sales manager, end-user sales, and major account sales leader.

Bob has a Bachelor of Science IM/IE from Purdue University.

Bob Hoogenboom

VP of Sales, co-Chief Revenue Officer

Binoy Unnikrishnan is the VP of Sales and GM for the Americas and Europe. His team manages our engagement with our largest hyperscale, digital SaaS and edge customers covering sales, business development and technical support. Prior to Ampere, Binoy spent over 20 years at Intel in several leadership roles, most recently as the Global Account Director for Amazon, where he led and managed product development, sales and partnership programs across Amazon Web Services, Amazon Lab126, Amazon affiliates companies and global retail business with Amazon.com. He has deep expertise in the semiconductor space having spent many years in CPU design, product management and product marketing before transitioning to sales. Binoy has an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Binoy Unnikrishnan

Ann Minooka is the chief marketing officer at Ampere. As a highly experienced marketing executive in the semiconductor industry, Ann brings a long track record of delivering strong results across corporate and product marketing, branding, crisis communications, partner marketing and demand generation marketing. Prior to joining Ampere, Ann was the CMO of Xilinx where she positioned Xilinx as the adaptive computing category leader, building up the brand equity and differentiation, and guided the integration of the elevated Xilinx brand into AMD through the acquisition. Ann also transformed the Xilinx marketing function from a cost-center to a revenue generation engine by building out a leading-edge MarTech stack and creating a world-class demand generation infrastructure. Before joining Xilinx, Ann was VP of marketing and communications at Cypress Semiconductor. She has also held leadership positions at Synaptics and at LSI Logic. 


Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA, both from Boston University.

Ann Minooka

Chief Marketing Officer

Matt has over 30 years of experience in HR, employment and labor law, holding several global leadership and executive roles. Matt joined Ampere Computing in September 2020 as a senior advisor. Previously, Matt worked for Intel Corporation from 1997 to 2019 in a variety of leadership roles in HR and Legal, including as Intel’s global CHRO on its executive management team. Prior to Intel, Matt worked as an employment and labor attorney at the Seattle law firm of Foster Pepper where he was named partner in 1996.

Matt graduated from Georgetown University with a JD and holds a BA from the University of Puget Sound.
                

 Matt Smith

Chief Human Resources Officer

Sandra is chief information officer of Ampere and leads IT and Facilities with responsibility to scale Ampere’s work environments, including the IT platforms and tools that ensure our employee productivity across our worldwide offices. Sandra began consulting with Ampere in early 2021. She has played a critical role in bringing technology solutions to businesses for over two decades as a technology executive, playing roles in digital marketing, product development and in general management. While at Eastman Kodak, she led the consumer digital imaging services business, and prior to that, she was the CIO of Intel, where she had responsibility for Intel’s e-business solutions worldwide.

Sandra has earned a masters of science in human development from the University of Delaware, has completed post-graduate work in communications and human development from the University of Pennsylvania, holds a masters of fine arts from Pacific University, and completed the executive graduate business program at Stanford University.

Sandra Morris

Chief Information Officer

Kit is the Chief Business Development and Operations Officer for our Asia market, responsible for all revenue-generating activities at Ampere, including business development, sales, pricing and business management, customer support and corporate marketing. He brings 30 years of experience in semiconductors, holding several leadership roles at Intel, most recently as vice president of sales and marketing and general manager for Cloud, Enterprise and HPC sales.

Prior to his global role, Kit was based in China for over a decade leading strategy, product enablement, business operations, and business development for China. He also previously served as group controller focused on emerging markets and the channel business, as well as APAC regional controller, responsible for all aspects of Asia Pacific operations and finance. 

Kit has a Bachelors in Financial Administration from the University of New England, Australia.

Kit Ho Chee

Chief Business Development and Operations Officer for Asia

Stephan brings a wealth of experience in CPU, SoC and system architecture to Ampere.  Prior to Ampere, he spent 21 years in product architecture at Intel, where he held a variety of technology and management roles including CPU core architect, chief architect of Intel’s PC client and mobile device SOCs, and most recently he was an Intel fellow in the Infrastructure and Platform Solutions Group (IPSG) and served as the IPSG chief technology officer.

Stephan is a prolific inventor, with over 50 patents to his name. Stephan received his PhD from University of Toulouse, France, and an MBA from University of Oregon.

Stephan Jourdan

Ampere Fellow

Shiv brings extensive experience in system software, instruction set architecture, SoC and platform architecture. Prior to joining Ampere, Shiv spent 24 years at Intel, where he served as the leader for Intel’s Windows OS Division, chief technology officer for the Software & Services Group and most recently as Intel’s chief Windows architect. He holds 52 patents in the area of system software and platform architecture.

Shiv received his PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from The Ohio State University, where he sits on the advisory board for the department of Computer Science.

Shiv Kaushik

John is senior vice president of manufacturing and planning. He joined Ampere from Zymergen, where he was senior vice president of FP&A, and helped the company redefine its business strategy and financial plan. Prior to that,  John spent 27 years at Intel, in several finance roles across the company, including CFO for the Technology and Manufacturing group, Sales and Marketing group and the PC Client group.   

He has a business degree from University of the Pacific, an M.B.A. from University of California, Berkeley, and earned his CPA at Grant Thornton in San Francisco.

John Lautze

Senior Vice President of Manufacturing & Planning

DawnDee is the chief accounting officer and corporate controller of Ampere with responsibility for the accounting, financial reporting, and internal control infrastructure to ensure timely and accurate financials for the company.  DawnDee began at Ampere in May 2021, staffing the organization and implementing critical systems infrastructure to support the growth of the business.  Prior to joining Ampere, DawnDee was the corporate accounting controller for Intel Corp. She started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the assurance practice supporting clients in a broad range of industries.

DawnDee earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Oregon State University and has held an Oregon CPA for 25 years.

DawnDee Hankel

Chief Accounting Officer/Corporate Controller

Sean brings 21 years of experience in designing high performance microprocessors to Ampere. Prior to joining Ampere, he was a senior principal engineer at Intel, where he led the design team for an advanced core design. Holding 10 patents, his design leadership has spanned multiple generations of Intel™ Pentium 4 and Core™ microprocessor designs, with major contributions to microarchitecture, logic design, circuit design and design efficiency.

Sean has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.

Sean Mirkes

Senior Vice President of Logic Development

Mauri Whalen is vice president of software engineering at Ampere. Her team leads and delivers software for tools/compilers, BIOS/UEFI, OS, hypervisors, middleware, and application development. 

Prior to joining Ampere, she spent more than a decade in Intel’s Open Source Technology Center.  Her most recent position was vice president of a core system development team, where she led efforts in open source software development across a range of technologies and market segments, including enterprise Linux, leadership in the Linux ecosystem, client Linux programs and related technologies.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Mauri Whalen

Senior Vice President of Software Engineering

Mitrajit brings 23 years of chip design, high performance microprocessor implementation and silicon characterization experience to Ampere. Prior to joining, he was an engineering director at Applied Micro, where he led the design of multiple generations of Arm server processors. Prior to that, he built and led design teams at IDT, Montalvo Systems, Sun Microsystems and Veloce Technologies. He holds seven patents and multiple technical publications in the areas of high-speed design, design automation, design-for-test, and power optimization.

Mitrajit has a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics from I.I.T. Kharagpur, India, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Mitrajit Chatterjee

Senior Vice President of Silicon Engineering

Sujata has extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor industry in roles ranging from design, pre-silicon verification to post silicon validation and customer support. Prior to joining Ampere, she worked at Intel for 15 years in a variety of positions throughout the company. Most recently, she was responsible for pre-silicon verification with focus on emulation innovation and initiatives to “shift left bug findings” and reduce sample time to customers. While at Intel, Sujata also led a design verification, design automation and emulation team responsible for five generations of Xeon processors. She received an Intel Achievement Award for her work in driving “shift left” initiatives that helped reduce considerable amount of time to product readiness. 

Sujata has an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. 

Sujata Ravi

Vice President of Engineering

Melissa Moore is a People & Culture leader that thrives in fast-paced entrepreneurial environments. She has extensive experience in developing People and HR strategies and operations for global organizations. Most recently Melissa led HR for one of the fastest growing and most awarded technology startups in Melbourne, Australia, Outware Mobile. Prior to that, she spent nine years in the game industry as an HR director for Ubisoft.

Melissa has an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Melissa Moore

Vice President of People & Culture

Betsey is the vice president of global marketing. She has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience with a broad range of technology companies from startups to Fortune 500, in the US and Europe. Prior to joining Ampere, she drove marketing strategy at Intel, responsible for new business initiatives including tablets, Smart TVs and IoT.  Betsey also held leadership roles at Adobe, Autodesk and Macromedia. She had her own consulting business for over a decade, advising clients such as Sun, Dell and SGI and multiple start-ups on marketing communications and channel programs. Betsey began her career at Apple, serving in a broad range of sales and marketing roles.
                

Betsey Signol

Vice President of Global Marketing

Kara Tatman is vice president and assistant general counsel at Ampere. Prior to joining Ampere, Kara was a partner at Perkins Coie LLP, where she advised on securities offerings, corporate governance practices, disclosure matters, and mergers and acquisitions.  Before her legal career, Kara held financial analyst roles at Intel and Target Corporation.  

She holds a J.D. from the University of Arizona and a B.S. from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Kara Tatman

Vice President & Assistant General Counsel

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