Raghu Nambiar serves as a Corporate Vice President at AMD, leading a global engineering team responsible for shaping software and solutions strategy, roadmap, and implementation for the company's datacenter CPU business. His expertise spans both business and research domains. Prior to joining AMD, Raghu held the position of Chief Technology Officer at Cisco UCS, where he played a pivotal role in advancing Cisco UCS into a leading datacenter compute platform by spearheading product management and solutions development for emerging technologies. Raghu also worked as an architect at Hewlett Packard, where he was instrumental in designing several industry-first solutions. He holds ten patents, with several more pending approval. Raghu's academic background includes leadership roles in industry standards committees, publication of over 75 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and editorial work on 20 books in the Lecture Series in Computer Science (LNCS). Raghu holds dual Master's degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Goa University, as well as the completion of an advanced management program at Stanford University.