AMPERE LEADERSHIP

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 21^st 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kit is the Chief Revenue Officer at Ampere, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mauri Whalen is vice president of software engineering at Ampere.  Her team leads and delivers software for tools/compilers, BIOS/UEFI, OS, hypervisors, middleware, application development and optimization for the Ampere^® eMAG platform. She also drives the developer program which allows developers to create and innovate on Ampere’s hardware platform.

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.

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.

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.

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.