Dan McNamara

Dan McNamara is AMD senior vice president and general manager of the Server Business Unit, with responsibility for driving the company’s high-performance server product line across cloud, enterprise, and ecosystem partners.

Previously, McNamara was senior vice president and general manager for Intel Corporation, where he led Intel’s Network and Custom Logic Group. Before this role, he was senior vice president of Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group from December 2015, after the close of Intel’s acquisition of Altera Corporation, to May 2019.

Prior to the acquisition, McNamara served in a series of executive roles at Altera Corporation from 2004 to 2015, where he was vice president of the Embedded Division from 2013 to 2015, and vice president of Customer Application Engineering from 2010 to 2013. During his time at Altera, McNamara also led sales, business development, and system engineering teams in driving Altera’s products across embedded markets, network infrastructure, and the cloud.

Additionally, McNamara has held senior management positions at StarGen from 2003 to 2004, and was co-founder of SemiTech Solutions, from 1997 to 2003. Before these roles McNamara was in engineering development at Raytheon Corp.

McNamara holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.