Rick Bergman

Bergman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a master of business administration from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.^[1] He is an avid runner and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.^[4] He currently lives in San Jose and has 3 daughters.^[5]

Bergman began his career at IBM, and later worked in management roles at Texas Instruments, Inc. and Exponential Inc. He was chief operating officer at S3 Graphics until January 2001.^[1] He then served in many positions at ATI Technologies before it was acquired in 2006 by AMD.^[2] AnandTech wrote that Bergman was "instrumental in helping stage ATI's comeback as a player in the GPU space".^[6]

At AMD, he was senior vice president and general manager of the Products Group.^[7] Bergman was responsible for delivering microprocessors and graphics chips to AMD's customers and for Fusion, which are the combination chips that put a graphics chip and processor on a single piece of silicon.^[8]

In September 2011, Bergman departed AMD to become President and CEO of Synaptics.^[9] He became a Director of Maxwell Technologies in 2015.^[1] He has been interviewed by media outlets including CNBC and Venture Beat on his firm and the evolving nature of interactions between humans and electronic devices.^[10][11] In 2017, the acquisition of Conexant and multimedia division of Marvell enters Synaptics into the IoT space that Bergman is calling Synaptics 3.0.^[12]

In 2019 Bergman rejoined AMD as the leader of Compute and Graphics business unit. In April 2023, he announced he would be retiring. ^[13]