Nigel Dessau Becomes Chief Marketing Officer at AMD
He was recently senior VP of storage marketing for Sun.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 21, 2008 at 2:15 pmAMD announced the appointment of Nigel Dessau as chief
marketing officer (CMO). He brings 22 years of technology sales and
marketing leadership experience at IBM and Sun, and will be responsible
for AMD’s global marketing, image and campaign strategies.
Dessau joins AMD from Sun Microsystems, where he was senior
vice president of storage marketing and senior vice president of
alliances and licensing. Prior to that, he was CMO of StorageTek and
spent 19 years at IBM, most recently as business unit executive for IBM
Virtualization Solutions. While at IBM, Dessau managed the worldwide
launch of the IBM zSeries eServer and oversaw marketing programs for
the S/390 brand. He also led the marketing strategy teams responsible
for extending the corporate e-business and helping to develop the On
Demand Business campaigns.
Born and educated in Nottingham, England, Dessau will be based in Austin, Texas and report to AMD’s Office of the CEO.
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