Data Centre Magazine August 2021 | Page 112

Qian Xiao
Dr . Lisa Su
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Qian Xiao

ROLE : Chief Operating Officer & Director , Chindata
APPOINTED : 2019 EXPERIENCE : 20 + years After receiving a bachelor ’ s degree in international finance from Beihang University and an MBA degree from Tsinghua University , Qian Xiao held a number of roles throughout the IT and finance sectors – including as a financial executive at Accenture from 2002 to 2007 , and as a senior consultant at IBM between 2007 and 2010 . She joined Chindata in 2019 as both COO and Director .

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Dr . Lisa Su

ROLE : President & Chief Executive Officer , AMD
APPOINTED : 2014 EXPERIENCE : 28 years
Dr . Lisa Su is the president and CEO of leading global chipmaker AMD , a position she has held since October 2014 . In her role as the driving force behind AMD ’ s market and technical strategy , Dr . Su is driven by a singular goal : ensure that the brightest engineering minds who call AMD home are focused on developing highperformance compute , graphics and visualisation technologies that will solve the world ’ s toughest problems . She has previously held roles at Texas Instruments and spent 13 years at IBM , before joining AMD in 2011 .
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