Summary
This podcast discusses how AMD is modernizing data centers with open standards, AI-ready hardware, and a broad CPU, GPU, and FPGA portfolio, while executives highlight supply-chain strategies, open-source investments, and partnerships that boost performance, cut costs, and maximize space.
Speakers
25+ years of experience recruiting, developing, and leading technical teams to drive sales and customer satisfaction. Highly experienced and successful at aligning technical sales with business goals while building partnership and trust with sales leaders and across organizations. Passionate about building both internal and external relationships and engaging with colleagues as a coach and mentor. Career has led to and through many situations that have provided me with the depth and breadth of experience to lead technical sales organizations: CTOs, Solutions Architects, Sales Engineers, Systems Engineers, Account Executives, and other job functions.
Senior Manager, Server Business Unit
AMD
Michael Detwiler is a Senior Manager in the Enterprise and HPC Business Group at AMD. He is a 24 year veteran of AMD, with the past 15+ years spent in the Server business across a variety of roles, including Business Development, OEM Portfolio Management, Product Marketing, and Regional Product Enablement.
CVP, Enterprise Business Group
AMD
Derek Dicker is a seasoned executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience bringing technology solutions to market. He has a proven track record of building and leading high-performance global organizations and businesses through intense collaboration with team members, customers, and partners.
Derek began his career at Intel, where he spent a decade building foundational skills in product sales and marketing, contributing to Intel’s efforts in shaping the PC industry. He then transitioned to general management roles with P&L responsibility at small and mid-cap publicly traded companies, including IDT and PMC-Sierra. During his tenure at PMC-Sierra, Derek incubated two new product franchises, each eventually growing to $100M+ annual revenue run-rate businesses. Following the $2.5B acquisition of PMC-Sierra by Microsemi, Derek was retained as one of three executives tasked with overseeing the PMC-Sierra business. After Microsemi, Derek served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Storage Business Unit at Micron, a Fortune 150 company, where he was responsible for a multi-billion-dollar P&L, building world-class storage products based on Micron’s leading-edge nonvolatile memory technology. Today Derek is responsible for AMD's EPYC business in the Enterprise segment. In this capacity, he works at the intersection of technology and business strategy, helping to position AMD as a leader in next-generation computing solutions for the Enterprise.
In addition to his corporate roles, Derek has actively engaged with start-ups, serving as Independent Director and CEO of Nyriad, and holding Board Observer roles at Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Lightbits Labs. He is also an active angel investor (21 Seeds, acquired by Diageo), advisor (OmniML, acquired by Nvidia), and previously served on the Technical Advisory Board at minds.ai, a company focused on the application of AI / Reinforcement Learning to semiconductor manufacturing.
Derek holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He attended INSEAD’s Young Manager Programme and the Stanford Executive Program. Derek co-authored a Stanford Graduate School of Business case study (“PMC Sierra: Riding the Waves of Disruption”) and has served as a guest lecturer in multiple Stanford GSB executive education courses.
Derek and his family are proud residents of Austin, Texas.
