Contact - Media Report - Top Interview - Celebrity Signature - Members Brief

Top Interview

Roy Taylor: Roy Taylor, VP AMD, International Top-Ranking Aerial Entrepreneur and Executive
Roy Taylor is Corporate Vice President and Head of Alliances at AMD. He is responsible for a global team managing all aspects of the AMD ecosystem and external relations. Taylor reports to AMD Senior Vice President and General Manager of CG, Jim Anderson.

Taylor joined AMD in 2013. A 25-year veteran, Taylor has had a multi-faceted career as a technology evangelist, content strategist and entrepreneur in both start-ups and established companies.

Prior to joining AMD, Taylor was Chief Sales Officer of Rightware, a Finland-based software start-up. Taylor spent a decade at NVIDIA, starting as a founder in Europe and going on to hold a number of leadership roles including Vice President Telco Relations, Vice President Content Relations and CTO for PCGA (PC Gaming Alliance), Vice President for GPU Sales and Vice President of EMEA Sales.

An avid gamer and IT enthusiast, Taylor started his career in the component distribution business and was a founder of Addtron, a firm representing sales and marketing for semiconductor leaders such as IBM Microelectronics, NEC Electronics, Cyrix, and others in Europe. Taylor holds a bachelor’s degree in business studies from Maidstone College, Kent, United Kingdom.