Patrick Moorhead

Patrick Moorhead is corporate vice president and corporate fellow in the Office of Strategy at AMD, developing corporate strategy for a variety of cross-divisional initiatives with long-term industry impact.

Moorhead joined AMD in 2000 as vice president of desktop and mobile strategic marketing where he led the marketing strategy for the AMD Athlon XP™ and Mobile Athlon™ processors. One year later, he assumed the position of vice president of consumer advocacy, leading AMD’s ongoing programs to put end users at the forefront of the industry’s technology discussions. Moorhead led the True Performance Initiative which provided end users a better explanation of the benefits and measurement of CPU performance. The CPU model numbering system is still in use today at AMD and established itself as the de-facto industry standard. Moorhead also served as vice president of global channel marketing where he led AMD’s first global channel tiering, marketing, and benefits program, the AMD Solution Provider Program. He was recognized as CRN’s and VARBusiness’ Channel Chief.  Moorhead then led the advanced marketing group where he developed the strategy behind AMD’s experiential platform marketing approach and also AMD’s social media strategy, as well as tackling a major industry issue, notebook battery life disclosures.

Before joining AMD, Moorhead held a variety of marketing leadership positions spanning consumer and enterprise computer hardware, software and services at Compaq Computer Corporation, AT&T/NCR and the AltaVista Company.

Moorhead has served on the executive boards of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the American Electronics Association (AEA). He currently chairs the board of the St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, TX.