David Reiner

David Reiner is AMD's Server Standards Strategist, the President of SPEC, and the Chair of The Green Grid. He leads Advanced Micro Devices’ Industry Benchmark Consortium, Government Energy Regulation, and International Energy Standards strategy and representation for the Datacenter Solutions Group. He is AMD's primary representative to SPEC, The Green Grid (TGG), ISO/IEC, and worldwide government energy efficiency regulatory agencies (EPA, CNIS, EU Commission, METI, and UBA). He also interfaces on AMD's behalf with ITIc, USITO (China), Digital Europe, TCO, and JEITA (Japan). He is the President of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmark consortium (since 2017) and has been a member of SPEC’s Board of Directors since 2011. David is the Chair of The Green Grid (since 2020), leading the TGG Advisory Council, the highest body within TGG. He also is the Chair of TGG's Server and Storage Energy (SSE) Working Group, the leading energy efficiency analyst and primary voice of the industry to worldwide governments for Server and Storage energy efficiency regulations.

David is the originator and Editor of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC39 21836 Draft International Standard, which is expected to be the standard methodology for evaluating server energy efficiency for government regulations worldwide. Previous roles include TGG Board of Directors (prior to ITIc acquisition), representative to EEMBC benchmark consortium, manager of AMD’s Server Performance and Power Optimization (SPPO) team, and a number of performance and power analysis engineering roles for server, workstation, and client products, both at AMD and Dell. David holds a Computer Engineering degree from Purdue University.