Nandan Nayampally is a semiconductor executive with nearly three decades of experience in engineering, product and business roles. With an extensive background in processing, systems and software and in particular IP, after an initial start on Athlon processor team at AMD, he spent 16 years at Arm building the processor, fabric, vertical product businesses, and was General Manager for the CPU business and first GM of the Client business. He led Amazon’s 3rd party Alexa effort, and had key roles at Denali, and most recently at BrainChip, focusing on bringing disruptive technologies to market. Nandan has an M.A. in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.